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astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited
Magnetic shielding of soft protons in future X-ray telescopes: the case of the ATHENA Wide Field Imager
Valentina Fioretti, Andrea Bulgarelli, Silvano Molendi +10
Both the interplanetary space and the Earth magnetosphere are populated by low energy ( keV) protons that are potentially able to scatter on the reflecting surface of Wolt…
astro-ph.IM2018★ 4 cited
The Geant4 mass model of the ATHENA Silicon Pore Optics and its effect on soft proton scattering
Valentina Fioretti, Andrea Bulgarelli, Simone Lotti +6
Given the unprecedented effective area, the new ATHENA Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) focusing technology, the dynamic and variable L2 environment, where no X-ray mission has flown up t…