Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-06-29
Exper.Astron.21:67-86,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
paper submitted to Experimental Astronomy in March 2006
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10686-006-9074-x
We present results of simulations performed with the Geant4 software code of the effects of Galactic Cosmic Ray impacts on the photoconductor arrays of the PACS instrument. This instrument is part of the ESA-Herschel payload, which will be launched in late 2007 and will operate at the Lagrangian L2 point of the Sun-Earth system. Both the Satellite plus the cryostat (the shield) and the detector act as source of secondary events, affecting the detector performance. Secondary event rates originated within the detector and from the shield are of comparable intensity. The impacts deposit energy on each photoconductor pixel but do not affect the behaviour of nearby pixels. These latter are hit with a probability always lower than 7%. The energy deposited produces a spike which can be hundreds times larger than the noise. We then compare our simulations with proton irradiation tests carried out for one of the detector modules and follow the detector behaviour under 'real' conditions.
Andreani Paola
Bongardo C.
de Zotti Gianfranco
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