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most citedAdvancing Precision Particle Background Estimation for Future X-ray Missions: Correlated Variability between AMS and Chandra/XMM-Newton

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astro-ph.IM2026

High-statistics simulations of NewAthena WFI background using Geant4

Matthew K. Heine, Catherine E. Grant, Marshall W. Bautz +14

The observation of hot gas structures is one science goal of the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on ESA's NewAthena X-ray observatory. Because the measurement of these faint diffuse source…

astro-ph.IM2025

Using the XMM-Newton small window mode to investigate systematic uncertainties in the particle background of X-ray charge-coupled device detectors

Gerrit Schellenberger, Ralph Kraft, Paul Nulsen +17

The level and uncertainty of the particle induced background in CCD detectors plays a crucial role for future X-ray instruments, such as the Wide Field Imager (WFI) onboard Athena.…

astro-ph.IM2024

Towards efficient machine-learning-based reduction of the cosmic-ray induced background in X-ray imaging detectors: increasing context awareness

Artem Poliszczuk, Dan Wilkins, Steven W. Allen +15

Traditional cosmic ray filtering algorithms used in X-ray imaging detectors aboard space telescopes perform event reconstruction based on the properties of activated pixels above a…

astro-ph.IM2024

Augmenting astronomical X-ray detectors with AI for enhanced sensitivity and reduced background

D. R. Wilkins, A. Poliszczuk, B. Schneider +13

Bringing artificial intelligence (AI) alongside next-generation X-ray imaging detectors, including CCDs and DEPFET sensors, enhances their sensitivity to achieve many of the flagsh…

astro-ph.IM2022

Reducing the background in X-ray imaging detectors via machine learning

D. R. Wilkins, S. W. Allen, E. D. Miller +9

The sensitivity of astronomical X-ray detectors is limited by the instrumental background. The background is especially important when observing low surface brightness sources that…