Abstract
Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays is one of the instruments
on-board the Solar Orbiter mission. It will be launched in 2020 into
heliocentric orbit, with perihelion distance ~0.3 AU.
The instrument is a Fourier X-ray imager operating within a range of
4-150 keV. The heliocentric orbit of the spacecraft can be highly
affected by streams of solar energetic particle. This will affect the
instrument operation by distorting obtained spectra and will complicate
image reconstruction. Therefore we performed Geant4 simulation of
particles interaction with the instrument, assuming realistic scenarios
SEP events. We calculated direct detectors hits as well as secondary
radiation from instrumental parts. We have found that the latter may
highly influence measured X-ray spectra and reconstructed images, and
have to be taken into account during data reduction.