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AstroSat CZT成像仪数据的广义事件选择算法

A generalized event selection algorithm for AstroSat CZT Imager data

Ajay Ratheesh, A. R. Rao, N. P. S Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, Ajay Vibhute, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Priya Pradeep, S. Sreekumar, Varun Bhalerao

摘要:

AstroSat卫星上的碲锌镉成像仪是一种硬X射线成像光谱仪,工作能量范围为20 $-$ 100 keV。它也作为一个开放的硬X射线监测器超过100千电子伏能够检测瞬态事件,如伽马射线暴(伽玛暴)。此外,该仪器具有测量硬X射线偏振的灵敏度在100 $-$ 400 keV的能量范围内的明亮的轴上源,如蟹状星云和天鹅座X-1和明亮的伽玛暴。由于CZTI等硬X射线仪器除了对X射线敏感外,还对宇宙射线敏感,因此需要识别和消除粒子诱发事件或其他噪声事件,并选择事件对数据进行科学分析。目前的CZTI数据分析流水线包括用于这种事件选择的算法,但是它们具有某些限制。它们主要是为分析来自持久X射线源的数据而设计的,其中源通量远小于背景,因此并不最适合于像GRB这样的源。在这里,我们重新审视CZTI中噪声事件的特征,并提出了一种广义的事件选择方法,该方法适合于所有类型的源的数据分析。通过检验所选事件的泊松行为和伽玛暴的信噪比来评价新方法的有效性。

英文摘要:

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) Imager on board AstroSat is a hard X-ray imaging spectrometer operating in the energy range of 20 $-$ 100 keV. It also acts as an open hard X-ray monitor above 100 keV capable of detecting transient events like the Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Additionally, the instrument has the sensitivity to measure hard X-ray polarization in the energy range of 100 $-$ 400 keV for bright on-axis sources like Crab and Cygnus X-1 and bright GRBs. As hard X-ray instruments like CZTI are sensitive to cosmic rays in addition to X-rays, it is required to identify and remove particle induced or other noise events and select events for scientific analysis of the data. The present CZTI data analysis pipeline includes algorithms for such event selection, but they have certain limitations. They were primarily designed for the analysis of data from persistent X-ray sources where the source flux is much less than the background and thus are not best suited for sources like GRBs. Here, we re-examine the characteristics of noise events in CZTI and present a generalized event selection method that caters to the analysis of data for all types of sources. The efficacy of the new method is reviewed by examining the Poissonian behavior of the selected events and the signal to noise ratio for GRBs.

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