Background Studies for the Black Hole Finder Probe EXIST

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21361101g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #611.01

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) will provide a wide field of view survey of the hard X-ray sky in order to detect and locate black holes of many different mass scales and redshifts. EXIST's High Energy Telescope (HET) will use 5mm-thick CZT detectors and be sensitive from 5 -600 keV. As fluctuations in background rates will largely determine the sensitivity of EXIST's CZT detectors, predicting and understanding the background rates from multiple components found in low Earth orbit are crucial to the feasibility of science objectives and mission design. We report on new Monte Carlo simulations of the background environment expected for EXIST's orbit. We validate our results by comparing simulated and observed background rates for Swift's Burst Alert Telescope.
This is work is supported by NASA under contract NNX07AH37G.

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