10–12 Apr 2017
Europe/London timezone

AREMBES general overview

Speaker

Dr Simone Lotti (INAF-IAPS)

Description

AREMBES (Athena Radiation Environment Models and x-ray Background Effects Simulator) is an ESA contract that foresees the development of a software simulator based on Geant4, capable of addressing all the background issues that the ATHENA mission will experience during its lifetime, together with the development of improved environment models for the L2 halo orbit radiation. The project, that has contributions from 10 scientific institutes/SME from 7 different countries, is divided in 3 parts: 1) Analyses of data relative to radiation effects and experience from previous X-ray missions, improvement of L2 radiation environment models, and improvement of the Geant4 physics models, 2) Development of a user-friendly radiation background simulator framework, construction of a representative ATHENA geometry model, and validation of the simulator performance 3) maintenance and upgrades. We will review the results obtained so far in part 1, focusing on the particle environment analysis (the improvement of Geant4 physics model will be explored more deeply in dedicated talks), and provide some hints about the final simulator expected features, along with a typical use case scenario.

Primary author

Dr Simone Lotti (INAF-IAPS)

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