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Since X-ray pulsar signals cannot be directly detected on the ground, and the space flight detection is both time-consuming and costly, simulation of X-ray pulsar signals with true physical characteristics is of great importance to the validation of various X-ray pulsar signal processing algorithms and X-ray pulsar-based navigation strategies. In this paper, a new simulation method of X-ray pulsar signals is proposed, in which according to the pulsar signal model at the solar system Barycenter (SSB) and the trajectory information of the spacecraft, the real-time photon arrival rate function at the spacecraft is established, then based on this, a scale transforming method is employed to directly generate the photon event time stamps at the spacecraft which follow a non-homogeneous Poisson process. The proposed simulation method takes into account the pulsar spin down law and the influences of the largescale time-space effects introduced in the process of dynamic detection, and thus avoids the complicated iteration procedure involved in the state of the art simulation methods. Finally, a series of simulations are designed to evaluate the performance of the proposed simulation method. The main results can be concluded as follows: 1) The simulated photon event timestamps have a slowly changing period, which are consistent with the pulsar spin down law. 2) The observed pulsar profile accurately reflects how the radiation intensity of pulsars changes over time within a phase cycle, and it has a Pearson correlation coefficient of up to 0.99 with a standard profile. 3) The simulated average fluxes of the pulsars are very close to the true values, and thereby verifies the correctness of the proposed simulation method from an overall point of view. 4) The simulated photon series are very similar to the real data detected by the RXTE explorer, and when the simulation time is longer than 50 s, the relevancy between the simulated profile and the profile obtained from the real data is higher than 0.9. 5) The computational cost of the scale transforming method is much less than that for the commonly used Poisson sifting method and the inverse mapping method. The above results show the validity and high efficiency of the proposed method in terms of the period property, the profile and flux accuracy, the similarity to the RXTE real data and the computational cost.
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Keywords:
- X-ray pulsar-based navigation /
- simulation of X-ray pulsar signals /
- dynamic detection /
- relativistic effects
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[1] Shuai P, Li M, Chen S L, Huang Z 2009 Principles and Techniques of X-ray Pulsar Based Navigation System (Beijing: China Astronauic Publishing House) p15 (in Chinese) [帅平, 李明, 陈绍龙, 黄震 2009 X射线脉冲星导航系统原理与方法 (北京: 中国宇航出版社) 第15页]
[2] Sheikh S I 2005 Ph. D. Dissertation (Maryland: University of Maryland)
[3] Hanson J E 1996 Ph. D. Dissertation (USA: Stanford University)
[4] Emadzadeh A A, Speyer J L 2010 IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc. 58 4484
[5] Emadzadeh A A, Speyer J L 2011 Navigation in space by X-ray pulsars (Berlin: Springer) pp24-26
[6] Sala J, Urruela A, Villares X 2004 ARIADNA Study 03 4202
[7] Bernhardt M G, Prinz T, Becker W, Walter U 2010 Proceedings of High Time Resolution Astrophysics IV The Era of Extremely Large Telescopes-HTRA-IV Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, May 5-7, 2010 p1
[8] Bernhardt M G, Becker W, Prinz T, Breithuth F M, Walter U 2011 Proceedings of 2 nd International Conference on Space TechnologyAthens, Greece, September 15-17, 2011 p1
[9] Becker W 2009 X-ray emission from pulsars and neutron stars, in neutron stars and pulsars (Berlin: Springer) pp91-95
[10] Sun H F, Bao W M, Fang H Y, Li X P 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 069701 (in Chinese) [孙海峰, 包为民, 方海燕, 李小平 2014 物理学报 63 069701]
[11] Huang L W, Liang B, Zhang T, Zhang C H 2012 Science in China Series G: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 55 527
[12] Ge M Y 2012 Ph. D. Dissertation (Beijing: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (in Chinese) [葛明玉 2012 博士学位论文 (北京: 中国科学院高能物理研究所)]
[13] Sun H F, Xie K, Li X P, Fang H Y, Liu X P, Fu L Z, Sun H J, Xue M F 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 109701 (in Chinese) [孙海峰, 谢楷, 李小平, 方海燕, 刘秀平, 傅灵忠, 孙海建, 薛梦凡 2013 物理学报 62 109701]
[14] Li J X, Ke X Z 2009 Sci. Sin. G: Pysica, Mechanica & Astronomica 39 311 (in Chinese) [李建勋, 柯熙政 2009 中国科学 G 辑: 物理学, 力学, 天文学 39 311]
[15] Zhu J, Ji P Y 2008 Chin. Phys. B 17 356
[16] Wang Y D, Zheng W, Sun S M, Li L 2014 Aerosp. Sci. Technol. 36 27
[17] Zhang H, Xu L P, Song S B, Jiao R 2014 Acta Astronautica 98 189
[18] Fu L Z, Shuang P, Xue M F, Sun H F, Fang H Y 2015 China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2015 Proceedings: Volume III Beijing, China, May 13-15, 2015 p635
[19] Hu H J 2012 Ph. D. Dissertation (Xi'an: Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (in Chinese) [胡慧君 2012 博士学位论文 (西安: 中国科学院西安光学精密机械研究所)]
[20] Su Z 2011 Ph. D. Dissertation (Xi'an: Xidian University) (in Chinese) [苏哲 2011 博士学位论文 (西安: 西安电子科技大学)]
[21] Bei X M, Shuai P, Huang L W, Sun H F, Wu Y J, Zhang Q 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 219701 (in Chinese) [贝晓敏, 帅平, 黄良伟, 孙海峰, 吴耀军, 张倩 2014 物理学报 63 219701]
[22] Landau L D, Lifshitz E M 1968 Statistical Physics (Part1) (New York: Pergamon) pp 132-140
[23] Emadzadeh A A 2009 Ph. D. Dissertation (USA: University of California Los Angeles)
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[25] Rots A H, Jahoda K, Lyne A G 2004 Astrophys. J. 605 L129
[26] Jain C, Paul B 2011 Res. Astron. Astrophys. 11 1134
[27] Taylor J H 1992 Philos. T. R. Soc. A 341 117
[28] Kaiper L, Hermsen W, Walter R, Foschini L 2006 Astron. Astrophys. 411 L31
[29] Lyne A G, Smith F G 1998 Pulsar Astronomy (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press) p34
[30] Deng Y L, Liang Z S 1998 Stochastic Point Process and Its Application (Beijing: Science Press) pp100-106 (in Chinese) [邓永录, 梁之舜 1998 随机点过程及其应用 (北京: 科学出版社) 第100–106页]
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