Volume 44, Issue 3

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December 2017

Space background in the context of the Athena mission

Issue Editors:

Lorenzo Natalucci,
Claudio Macculi

14 articles in this issue

Editorial to the special issue on Particle background for space instrumentation in the context of the Athena mission
Lorenzo Natalucci
Claudio Macculi
Editorial 20 December 2017 Pages: 261 - 261
The role of the background in past and future X-ray missions
Silvano Molendi
Original Article 01 September 2017 Pages: 263 - 271
A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: III. Impact of the magnetospheric environment
Simona Ghizzardi
Martino Marelli
Andrea Tiengo
Original Article 04 August 2017 Pages: 273 - 285
An XMM-Newton proton response matrix
Teresa Mineo
Simone Lotti
Simona Ghizzardi
OriginalPaper 05 August 2017 Pages: 287 - 296
A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures
Martino Marelli
David Salvetti
Andrea Tiengo
Original Article 15 June 2017 Pages: 297 - 308
A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: II. Properties of the in-Field-Of-View excess component
David Salvetti
Martino Marelli
Andrea Tiengo
Original Article 23 May 2017 Pages: 309 - 320
A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: IV
F. Gastaldello
S. Ghizzardi
A. Tiengo
Original Article 09 August 2017 Pages: 321 - 336
Hyper-velocity impact risk assessment and mitigation strategies in the context of future X-ray astronomy missions
Emanuele Perinati
Martin Rott
Chris Tenzer
Original Article 28 June 2017 Pages: 337 - 357
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector for ATHENA X-IFU: a scientific assessment of the observational capabilities in the hard X-ray band
M. D’Andrea
S. Lotti
F. Gatti
Original Article 29 May 2017 Pages: 359 - 370
The particle background of the X-IFU instrument
Simone Lotti
Teresa Mineo
Luigi Piro
Original Article 17 May 2017 Pages: 371 - 385
Preliminary assessment of the ATHENA/WFI non-X-ray background
Emanuele Perinati
Marco Barbera
Chris Tenzer
Original Article 06 June 2017 Pages: 387 - 399
A revision of soft proton scattering at grazing incidence and its implementation in the geant4 toolkit
Alejandro Guzmán
Emanuele Perinati
Andrea Santangelo
Original Article 15 August 2017 Pages: 401 - 411
Geant4 simulations of soft proton scattering in X-ray optics
Valentina Fioretti
Teresa Mineo
on behalf of the AREMBES collaboration
Original Article 28 October 2017 Pages: 413 - 435
Validation of Geant4 10.3 simulation of proton interaction for space radiation effects
Vladimir Ivanchenko
Paolo Dondero
Teresa Mineo
Original Article 18 August 2017 Pages: 437 - 450

Volume 44, Issue 3

Editorial to the special issue on Particle background for space instrumentation in the context of the Athena mission

The role of the background in past and future X-ray missions

A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: III. Impact of the magnetospheric environment

An XMM-Newton proton response matrix

A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures

A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: II. Properties of the in-Field-Of-View excess component

A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: IV

Hyper-velocity impact risk assessment and mitigation strategies in the context of future X-ray astronomy missions

The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector for ATHENA X-IFU: a scientific assessment of the observational capabilities in the hard X-ray band

The particle background of the X-IFU instrument

Preliminary assessment of the ATHENA/WFI non-X-ray background

A revision of soft proton scattering at grazing incidence and its implementation in the geant4 toolkit

Geant4 simulations of soft proton scattering in X-ray optics

Validation of Geant4 10.3 simulation of proton interaction for space radiation effects

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