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arXiv 2005.01661astro-ph.IMastro-ph.HE
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洞察号高能望远镜HXMT的背景模型

Background Model for the High-Energy Telescope of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Xue-Feng Lu, Juan Zhang, Gang Li, Zhi Chang, Yu-Peng Chen, Ming-Yu Ge, Cheng-Cheng Guo, Rui Huang, Jing Jin, Xiao-Bo Li, Xu-Fang Li, Z… 展开作者

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Xue-Feng Lu, Juan Zhang, Gang Li, Zhi Chang, Yu-Peng Chen, Ming-Yu Ge, Cheng-Cheng Guo, Rui Huang, Jing Jin, Xiao-Bo Li, Xu-Fang Li, Zheng-Wei Li, Cong-Zhan Liu, Fang-Jun Lu, Jian-Yin Nie, Li-Ming Song, Si-Fan Wang, Yuan You, Yi-Fei Zhang, Hai-Sheng Zhao, Shuang-Nan Zhang

摘要:

准确的背景估计是天体物理学中光谱和时间分析的基础。在这项工作中,我们构建了硬X射线调制望远镜(被称为Insight-HXMT)的高能望远镜(HE)的在轨背景模型。基于Insight-HXMT/HE两年的空白天空观测,我们首先研究了背景的基本性质,发现背景光谱形状和强度在不同地理位置都有长期演变。然后将整个地球划分为小网格,每个网格在地理坐标系中具有5x 5平方度的典型面积。对于每个网格,使用经验函数来描述背景光谱的每个通道的长期演变;背景的强度可以是可变的,并且引入修改因子以通过测量盲检测器的当代通量来解释这种可变性。对于给定的指向观测,背景模型是通过在每个轨道上卫星轨道经过的网格上积分来完成的。这样一个背景模型进行了测试与空白的天空观测和运动的观测一系列的天体源。结果表明,在典型曝光量为8 ks时,背景能谱(26-100 keV)的平均系统误差为1.5%,背景光曲线估计(30-150 keV)的平均系统误差<3%。因此,本文中介绍的背景模型包含在Insight-HXMT软件中,作为专门用于光谱和时间分析的标准部分。

英文摘要:

Accurate background estimation is essential for spectral and temporal analysis in astrophysics. In this work, we construct the in-orbit background model for the High-Energy Telescope (HE) of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (dubbed as Insight-HXMT). Based on the two-year blank sky observations of Insight-HXMT/HE, we first investigate the basic properties of the background and find that both the background spectral shape and intensity have long-term evolution at different geographical sites. The entire earth globe is then divided into small grids, each with a typical area of 5x5 square degrees in geographical coordinate system. For each grid, an empirical function is used to describe the long-term evolution of each channel of the background spectrum; the intensity of the background can be variable and a modification factor is introduced to account for this variability by measuring the contemporary flux of the blind detector. For a given pointing observation, the background model is accomplished by integrating over the grids that are passed by the track of the satellite in each orbit. Such a background model is tested with both the blank sky observations and campaigns for observations of a series of celestial sources. The results show an average systematic error of 1.5% for the background energy spectrum (26-100 keV) under a typical exposure of 8 ks, and <3% for background light curve estimation (30-150 keV). Therefore, the background model introduced in this paper is included in the Insight-HXMT software as a standard part specialized for both spectral and temporal analyses.

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