Conveners
X-ray Instrument Simulators
- Thibaut Prod'homme (European Space Agency)
The X-DECIMO tool is being used and further developed at ESRF to model and simulate the full detection and signal processing chain of current and future X-ray detectors for synchrotron radiation applications. This tool is a modular Python package in which the specific detectors are modeled and built by plugging and connecting together individual components. The generation of X-rays as well as...
We present the SImulation of X-ray TElescopes (SIXTE) software package, a generic, mission-independent Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for X-ray astronomical instrumentation. The package is based on a modular approach for the source definition, the description of the optics, and the detector type such that new missions can be easily implemented. The targets to be simulated are stored in a...
We present the instrument simulator $\texttt{xifusim}$ developed for the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an X-ray microcalorimeter aboard the planned ESA mission $\textit{Athena}$. The goal of the X-IFU is to perform spatially resolved spectroscopy from 0.2 to 12 keV over a field of view of 5' equivalent diameter, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV up to 7 keV on 5" pixels.
The main...
