The Diffuse X-Ray Background of the Insight-HXMT/LE Telescope in the Galactic Plane
Open Access
- 1 June 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Vol. 260 (2), 42
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac6d5f
Abstract
Accurately estimating of diffuse X-ray background (DXB) is essential for the investigation of sources in the Galactic plane observed with Insight-HXMT/LE, which is a collimated telescope in the soft X-ray energy band with a relatively large field of view. In the high-Galactic-latitude region, DXB is dominated by the cosmic X-ray background, which is almost uniform, but DXB in the Galactic plane region is more complex due to the Galactic H i absorption and the contribution of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission. This study, as a part of background estimation of LE, focuses on estimating the contribution of DXB in the Galactic plane to Insight-HXMT/LE observations. We calculate DXB confined in a region of 0 degrees < l < 360 degrees and divide b divide < 10 degrees, where l and b denote Galactic longitude and latitude, respectively, with the first 3 yr of Galactic-plane-scanning survey data of Insight-HXMT/LE. The Galactic plane is divided into 360 x 20 small pixels (1 degrees x 1 degrees per pixel), and a DXB spectrum is obtained for each pixel. An indirect method is developed for the pixels of the bright source regions, which brings a systematic error of similar to 10%. The systematic error brought by the satellite attitude is similar to 7% on average for all the pixels in the Galactic plane. The LE DXB spectrum obtained in this study is consistent with that reported by RXTE's Proportional Counter Array.Funding Information
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1838202)
- The National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFA0718500)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1838201)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1838107)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (U2038102)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1838113)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1838105)
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