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most citedThe Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 68 cited

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,…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 20 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 22 cited

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…