Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000head....5.4418s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD Meeting #5, #44.18; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1654
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
The INTEGRAL Mass Model (TIMM) is a Monte-Carlo background simulation that was developed in Southampton to assess the performance of all of the instruments aboard the ESA INTEGRAL mission. TIMM has been succesfully adapted and extended to allow the dynamic modelling of the background in BATSE Large Area Detectors (LADs) as a function of time and orbital position. The BATSE background fluctuations in each energy channel of all 8 LADs can be reduced by up to an order of magnitude with our model for any period in the 9 year CGRO mission. A maximum likelihood imaging technique has also been developed to work with the Earth Occultation technique and is currently being used to perform the first hard x-ray all sky survey since the HEAO-1-A4 mission of 1977-1979. The 3σ flux sensitivity of the survey technique using channel 2 of the CONTINUOUS data for a 50 day period is ~20mcrab. Survey results are discussed in more detail in another paper given at this conference. The Southampton group is currently using the same modelling techniques to simulate the expected background flux that will be experienced by the BAT burst monitor, aboard the SWIFT mission.
Bird Andrew J.
Dean Anthony J.
Diallo Nene
Ferguson C. F.
Lockley J. J.
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