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High-statistics simulations of NewAthena WFI background using Geant4

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

The paper presents high‑statistics Geant4 simulations of the background caused by cosmic‑ray interactions in the Wide Field Imager of ESA's NewAthena X‑ray observatory, using both…

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

Focal Plane of the Arcus Probe X-Ray Spectrograph

Catherine E. Grant, Marshall W. Bautz, Eric D. Miller +7

The Arcus Probe mission concept provides high-resolution soft X-ray and UV spectroscopy to reveal feedback-driven structure and evolution throughout the universe with an agile resp…

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…