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Instruments of RT-2 experiment onboard CORONAS-PHOTON and their test and evaluation IV: background simulations using GEANT-4 toolkit

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Hard X-ray detectors in space are prone to background signals due to the ubiquitous cosmic rays and cosmic diffuse background radiation that continuously bombards the satellites which carry the detectors. In general, the background intensity depends on the space environment as well as the material surrounding the detectors. Understanding the behavior of the background noise in the detector is very important to extract the precise source information from the detector data. In this paper, we carry out Monte Carlo simulations using the GEANT-4 toolkit to estimate the prompt background noise measured with the detectors of the RT-2 Experiment onboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite.

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RS and TBK thank RT-2/SRF fellowship (ISRO) which supported their research work. The authors are thankful to ICSP/TIFR/VSSC/ISRO-HQ for various supports during RT2 related experiments. We are thankful to an anonymous referee for his very helpful comments which improved the paper substantially.

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  1. Indian Centre for Space Physics, 43 Chalantika, Garia Station Rd., Kolkata, 700084, India

    Ritabrata Sarkar, Samir Mandal, Dipak Debnath, Tilak B. Kotoch, Anuj Nandi & Sandip K. Chakrabarti

  2. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, 400005, India

    A. R. Rao

  3. S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700097, India

    Sandip K. Chakrabarti

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A. Nandi is posted at ICSP by Space Science Division, ISRO Head Quarters, Bangalore, India.

This work was made possible in part from a grant from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The whole-hearted support from G. Madhavan Nair, Ex-Chairman, ISRO, who initiated the RT-2 project, is gratefully acknowledged.

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Sarkar, R., Mandal, S., Debnath, D. et al. Instruments of RT-2 experiment onboard CORONAS-PHOTON and their test and evaluation IV: background simulations using GEANT-4 toolkit. Exp Astron 29, 85–107 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-010-9208-z

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