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Scientific performances of the XGIS instrument on-board THESEUS
E. Arrigoni, S. Mereghetti, R. Campana +6
The Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) satellite, currently undergoing a Phase-A study for the M7 ESA mission selection, will mainly rely on the XGIS (…
Multivariate time-series forecasting of ASTRI-Horn monitoring data: A Normal Behavior Model
Federico Incardona, Alessandro Costa, Farida Farsian +8
This study presents a Normal Behavior Model (NBM) developed to forecast monitoring time-series data from the ASTRI-Horn Cherenkov telescope under normal operating conditions. The a…
Conceptual Opto-Mechanical design of SHARP: a near-infrared multi-mode spectrograph conceived for the next-generation telescopes
H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, P. Conconi +18
The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with their wide apertures and advanced Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, will provide unprecedented sharp an…
Unveiling the origin of XMM-Newton soft proton flares: I. Design and validation of a response matrix for proton spectral analysis
Valentina Fioretti, Teresa Mineo, Simone Lotti +8
Low-energy (<300 keV) protons entering the field of view of XMM-Newton are observed in the form of a sudden increase in the background level, the so-called soft proton flares, affe…
Design and development of the HERMES Pathfinder payloads
R. Campana, Y. Evangelista, F. Fiore +22
HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder mission aims to observe and localize Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and other transients using a constellation of nano…
GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory -- Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations
András Pál, Masanori Ohno, László Mészáros +42
Aims. Since launched on 2021 March 22, the 1U-sized CubeSat GRBAlpha operates and collects scientific data on high-energy transients, making it the smallest astrophysical space obs…
SIPGI: an interactive pipeline for spectroscopic data reduction
A. Gargiulo, M. Fumana, S. Bisogni +5
We present SIPGI, a spectroscopic pipeline to reduce optical/near-infrared data from slit-based spectrographs. SIPGI is a complete spectroscopic data reduction environment which re…
Athena charged particle diverter simulations: effects of micro-roughness on proton scattering using Geant4
Jean-Paul Breuer, Gábor Galgóczi, Valentina Fioretti +12
The last generation of X-ray focusing telescopes operating outside the Earth's radiation belt discovered that optics were able to focus not only astrophysical X-ray photons, but al…
First light of BEaTriX, the new testing facility for the modular X-ray optics of the ATHENA mission
S. Basso, B. Salmaso, D. Spiga +35
The Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility (BEaTriX) is a unique X-ray apparatus now operated at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB)…
Sonification and Sound Design for Astronomy Research, Education and Public Engagement
A. Zanella, C. M. Harrison, S. Lenzi +3
Over the last ten years there has been a large increase in the number of projects using sound to represent astronomical data and concepts. Motivation for these projects includes th…
Exploring X-ray variability with unsupervised machine learning I. Self-organizing maps applied to XMM-Newton data
Miloš Kovačević, Mario Pasquato, Martino Marelli +3
XMM-Newton provides unprecedented insight into the X-ray Universe, recording variability information for hundreds of thousands of sources. Manually searching for interesting patter…
Mirror production for the Cherenkov telescopes of the ASTRI Mini-Array and of the MST project for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
N. La Palombara, G. Sironi, E. Giro +14
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next ground-based -ray observatory in the TeV -ray spectral region operating with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. It i…
The Fluorescence Telescope on board EUSO-SPB2 for the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
G. Osteria, J. Adams, M. Battisti +37
The Fluorescence Telescope is one of the two telescopes on board the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an ultra-long-durat…
The Aperture Array Verification System 1: System overview and early commissioning results
P. Benthem, R. Wayth, E. de Lera Acedo +51
The design and development process for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, the Low Frequency Aperture Array component, was progressed during the SKA pre-construction…
Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation
The Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood +126
The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope,…
Synergies of THESEUS with the large facilities of the 2030s and guest observer opportunities
P. Rosati, S. Basa, A. W. Blain +37
The proposed THESEUS mission will vastly expand the capabilities to monitor the high-energy sky, and will exploit large samples of gamma-ray bursts to probe the early Universe back…
Gamma Ray Burst studies with THESEUS
G. Ghirlanda, R. Salvaterra, M. Toffano +30
Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful transients in the Universe, over-shining for a few seconds all other -ray sky sources. Their emission is produced within narrowly c…
Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with THESEUS in the 2030s
Riccardo Ciolfi, Giulia Stratta, Marica Branchesi +63
Multi-messenger astrophysics is becoming a major avenue to explore the Universe, with the potential to span a vast range of redshifts. The growing synergies between different probe…
Exploration of the high-redshift universe enabled by THESEUS
N. R. Tanvir, E. Le Floc'h, L. Christensen +36
At peak, long-duration gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation known. Since their progenitors are massive stars, they provide a tracer of star f…
The THESEUS space mission: science goals, requirements and mission concept
L. Amati, P. T. O'Brien, D. Götz +31
THESEUS, one of the two space mission concepts being studied by ESA as candidates for next M5 mission within its Comsic Vision programme, aims at fully exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts…
The XGIS instrument on-board THESEUS: Monte Carlo simulations for response, background, and sensitivity
Riccardo Campana, Fabio Fuschino, Claudio Labanti +6
The response of the X and Gamma Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) instrument onboard the Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) mission, selected by ESA for an a…
Review of the particle background of the Athena X-IFU instrument
Simone Lotti, Matteo D'Andrea, Silvano Molendi +6
X-ray observations are limited by the background, due to intrinsic faintness or diffuse nature of the sources. The future Athena X-ray observatory has among its goals the character…
Analysis of the unconcentrated background of the EPIC-pn camera on board XMM-Newton
Martino Marelli, Silvano Molendi, Mariachiara Rossetti +8
Our understanding of the background of the EPIC/pn camera onboard XMM-Newton is incomplete. This affects the study of extended sources and can influence the predictions of the back…
Prediction and understanding of soft proton contamination in XMM-Newton: a machine learning approach
E. A. Kronberg, F. Gastaldello, S. Haaland +10
One of the major and unfortunately unforeseen sources of background for the current generation of X-ray telescopes are few tens to hundreds of keV (soft) protons concentrated by th…