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Davis, Christopher S. W. (2021). The Simulation, Composition and Shielding of Radiation-Induced X-ray-like Background in Space-Based X-ray Astronomy Missions. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Eraerds, Tanja; Antonelli, Valeria; Davis, Chris; Hall, David J.; Hetherington, Oliver; Holland, Andrew; Hubbard, Michael; Meidinger, Norbert; Miller, Eric D.; Molendi, Silvano; Perinati, Emanuele; Pietschner, Daniel and Rau, Arne (2021). Enhanced simulations on the Athena/Wide Field Imager instrumental background. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7(3), article no. 034001.

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Eraerds, Tanja; Antonelli, Valeria; Davis, Chris; Hall, David; Hetherington, Oliver; Holland, Andrew; Keelan, Jonathan; Meidinger, Norbert; Miller, Eric D.; Molendi, Silvano; Perinati, Emanuele; pietschner@mpe.mpg.de, Daniel; Rau, Arne; den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro and Nikzad, Shouleh (2020). Enhanced simulations on the ATHENA/WFI instrumental background. In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, p. 49.

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Davis, Chris; Hall, David; Keelan, Jonathan; Holland, Andrew; O'Farrell, James and Leese, Mark (2018). Mitigation strategies against radiation-induced background for space astronomy missions. Journal of Instrumentation, 13(1)

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Hall, David; Keelan, Jonathan; Davis, Chris; Hetherington, Oliver; Leese, Mark and Holland, Andrew (2018). Predicting the particle-induced background for future x-ray astronomy missions: the importance of experimental validation for GEANT4 simulations. In: Proceedings Volume 10709. High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VIII, p. 124.

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