28–30 Nov 2018
US/Central timezone

Geant4 applications in space missions like HXMT and active galactic nucleus

29 Nov 2018, 12:20
25m

Speaker

Xiaobo Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

Description

As China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, Insight-HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) successfully launched on Jun 15, 2017. HXMT carries three main payloads onboard: the High Energy X-ray telescope (HE, 20-250 keV, NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na)), the Medium Energy X-ray Telescope (ME, 5-30 keV, Si-Pin) and the Low Energy X-ray telescope (LE, 1-15 keV, SCD). The response function and efficient areas of HXMT payloads can be derived by using the Geant4.
An X-ray spectral model for the clumpy torus was constructed in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) using Geant4, which includes the physical processes of the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, Rayleigh scattering, gamma conversion, fluorescence line, and Auger process. Since the electrons in the torus are expected to be bounded instead of free, the deviation of the scattering cross section from the Klein–Nishina cross section has also been included, which changes the X-ray spectra by up to 25% below 10 keV. We have investigated the effect of the clumpiness parameters on the reflection spectra and the strength of the fluorescent line Fe Kalpha.

Primary author

Xiaobo Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

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