Cosmic X‐Ray Background and Earth Albedo Spectra withSwiftBAT
- 20 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 689 (2) , 666-677
- https://doi.org/10.1086/592595
Abstract
We use Swift BAT Earth occultation data at different geomagnetic latitudes to derive a sensitive measurement of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) and of the Earth albedo emission in the 15-200 keV band. We compare our CXB spectrum with recent (INTEGRAL, BeppoSAX) and past results (HEAO-1) and find good agreement. Using an independent measurement of the CXB spectrum we are able to confirm our results. This study shows that the BAT CXB spectrum has a normalization ~8% ± 3% larger than the HEAO-1 measurement. The BAT accurate Earth albedo spectrum can be used to predict the level of photon background for satellites in low Earth and mid inclination orbits.Keywords
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