Simulations of the x-ray imaging capabilities of the silicon drift detectors (SDD) for the LOFT wide-field monitor

Y. Evangelista; R. Campana; E. Del Monte; I. Donnarumma; M. Feroci; F. Muleri; L. Pacciani; P. Soffitta; A. Rachevski; A. Vacchi; G. Zampa; N. Zampa; S. Suchy; Søren Brandt; M. Hernanz

doi:10.1117/12.926000

Simulations of the x-ray imaging capabilities of the silicon drift detectors (SDD) for the LOFT wide-field monitor

Y. Evangelista, R. Campana, E. Del Monte, I. Donnarumma, M. Feroci, F. Muleri, L. Pacciani, P. Soffitta, A. Rachevski, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, S. Suchy, Søren Brandt, M. Hernanz

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The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT), selected by ESA as one of the four Cosmic Vision M3 candidate missions to undergo an assessment phase, will revolutionize the study of compact objects in our galaxy and of the brightest supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. The Large Area Detector (LAD), carrying an unprecedented effective area of 10 m^2, is complemented by a coded-mask Wide Field Monitor, in charge of monitoring a large fraction of the sky potentially accessible to the LAD, to provide the history and context for the sources observed by LAD and to trigger its observations on their most interesting and extreme states. In this paper we present detailed simulations of the imaging capabilities of the Silicon Drift Detectors developed for the LOFT Wide Field Monitor detection plane. The simulations explore a large parameter space for both the detector design and the environmental conditions, allowing us to optimize the detector characteristics and demonstrating the X-ray imaging performance of the large-area SDDs in the 2-50 keV energy band.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8443
Issue number	PART 3
Pages (from-to)	84435P
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926000
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2012 - Amsterdam RAI Convention Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012 Conference number: 8443

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Conference	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2012
Number	8443
Location	Amsterdam RAI Convention Center
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	01/07/2012 → 06/07/2012

Keywords

LOFT wide field monitor
Silicon drift detectors
SDD
Simulations
Spatial resolution

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LOFT: LOFT, the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
Brandt, S. (Project Manager), Budtz-Jørgensen, C. (Project Participant), Lund, N. (Project Participant), Pedersen, S. M. (Project Manager), Kuvvetli, I. (Project Participant) & Hansen, F. (Project Participant)
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Evangelista, Y., Campana, R., Del Monte, E., Donnarumma, I., Feroci, M., Muleri, F., Pacciani, L., Soffitta, P., Rachevski, A., Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Suchy, S., Brandt, S., & Hernanz, M. (2012). Simulations of the x-ray imaging capabilities of the silicon drift detectors (SDD) for the LOFT wide-field monitor. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8443(PART 3), 84435P. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926000

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Evangelista, Y, Campana, R, Del Monte, E, Donnarumma, I, Feroci, M, Muleri, F, Pacciani, L, Soffitta, P, Rachevski, A, Vacchi, A, Zampa, G, Zampa, N, Suchy, S, Brandt, S & Hernanz, M 2012, 'Simulations of the x-ray imaging capabilities of the silicon drift detectors (SDD) for the LOFT wide-field monitor', Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8443, no. PART 3, pp. 84435P. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926000

Simulations of the x-ray imaging capabilities of the silicon drift detectors (SDD) for the LOFT wide-field monitor. / Evangelista, Y.; Campana, R.; Del Monte, E. et al.
In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 8443, No. PART 3, 2012, p. 84435P.

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Simulations of the x-ray imaging capabilities of the silicon drift detectors (SDD) for the LOFT wide-field monitor

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