The ATHENA WFI science products module

David N. Burrows; Steven Allen; Marshall Bautz; Esra Bulbul; Julia Erdley; Abraham D. Falcone; Stanislav Fort; Catherine E. Grant; Sven Herrmann; Jamie Kennea; Robert Klar; Ralph Kraft; Adam Mantz; Eric D. Miller; Paul Nulsen; Steve Persyn; Pragati Pradhan; Dan Wilkins

doi:10.1117/12.2312785

The ATHENA WFI science products module

David N. Burrows, Steven Allen, Marshall Bautz, Esra Bulbul, Julia Erdley, Abraham D. Falcone, Stanislav Fort, Catherine E. Grant, Sven Herrmann, Jamie Kennea, Robert Klar, Ralph Kraft, Adam Mantz, Eric D. Miller, Paul Nulsen, Steve Persyn, Pragati Pradhan, Dan Wilkins

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Abstract

The Science Products Module (SPM), a US contribution to the Athena Wide Field Imager, is a highly capable secondary CPU that performs special processing on the science data stream. The SPM will have access to both accepted X-ray events and those that were rejected by the on-board event recognition processing. It will include two software modules. The Transient Analysis Module will perform on-board processing of the science images to identify and characterize variability of the prime target and/or detection of serendipitous transient X-ray sources in the field of view. The Background Analysis Module will perform more sophisticated flagging of potential background events as well as improved background characterization, making use of data that are not telemetered to the ground, to provide improved background maps and spectra. We present the preliminary design of the SPM hardware as well as a brief overview of the software algorithms under development.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Shouleh Nikzad, Jan-Willem A. Den Herder, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510619517
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312785
State	Published - 2018
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Austin, United States Duration: Jun 10 2018 → Jun 15 2018

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10699
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	6/10/18 → 6/15/18

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Burrows, D. N., Allen, S., Bautz, M., Bulbul, E., Erdley, J., Falcone, A. D., Fort, S., Grant, C. E., Herrmann, S., Kennea, J., Klar, R., Kraft, R., Mantz, A., Miller, E. D., Nulsen, P., Persyn, S., Pradhan, P., & Wilkins, D. (2018). The ATHENA WFI science products module. In S. Nikzad, J-W. A. Den Herder, & K. Nakazawa (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray [106991J] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10699). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312785

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Burrows, DN, Allen, S, Bautz, M, Bulbul, E, Erdley, J, Falcone, AD, Fort, S, Grant, CE, Herrmann, S, Kennea, J, Klar, R, Kraft, R, Mantz, A, Miller, ED, Nulsen, P, Persyn, S, Pradhan, P & Wilkins, D 2018, The ATHENA WFI science products module. in S Nikzad, J-WA Den Herder & K Nakazawa (eds), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray., 106991J, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10699, SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Austin, United States, 6/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312785

The ATHENA WFI science products module. / Burrows, David N.; Allen, Steven; Bautz, Marshall et al.

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Shouleh Nikzad; Jan-Willem A. Den Herder; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2018. 106991J (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10699).

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