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

http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04175


Background has played an important role in X-ray missions, limiting the exploitation of science data in several and sometimes unexpected ways. In this presentation I review past X-ray missions focusing on some important lessons we can learn from them. I then go on discussing prospects for overcoming background related limitations in future ones.

Read this paper on arXiv…

S. Molendi
Fri, 12 May 17
24/55

Comments: To Appear in Experimental Astronomy. Invited Review presented at the AHEAD Background Workshop, 28-30 November 2016, Rome, Italy