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Calibration of the ComPair Balloon Instrument
Nicholas Kirschner, Zachary Metzler, Lucas D. Smith +25
ComPair, the prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) mission concept, is a combined Compton imager and pair production telescope. It consists of four s…
Evaluation of gamma-ray response of the AstroPix4 HV-CMOS active pixel sensor
Yusuke Suda, Regina Caputo, Daniel Violette +11
AstroPix is a novel high-voltage CMOS active pixel sensor being developed for a next generation gamma-ray space telescope, AMEGO-X. To meet AMEGO-X instrument requirements, AstroPi…
Background Measurements and Simulations of the ComPair Balloon Flight
Zachary Metzler, Nicholas Kirschner, Lucas Smith +31
ComPair, a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO), completed a short-duration high-altitude balloon campaign on August 27, 2023 from Fort Sumner, New…
ComPair-2: A Next Generation Medium Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype
Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Nicholas Cannady +30
Many questions posed in the Astro2020 Decadal survey in both the New Messengers and New Physics and the Cosmic Ecosystems science themes require a gamma-ray mission with capabiliti…
A-STEP: The AstroPix Sounding Rocket Technology Demonstration Payload
Daniel P. Violette, Amanda Steinhebel, Abhradeep Roy +21
A next-generation medium-energy (100 keV to 100 MeV) gamma-ray observatory will greatly enhance the identification and characterization of multimessenger sources in the coming deca…
The 2023 Balloon Flight of the ComPair Instrument
Lucas D. Smith, Nicholas Cannady, Regina Caputo +29
The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype gamma-ray telescope that aims to further develop technology for observing the gamma-ray sky in the MeV regime. ComPair combines four d…
Performance evaluation of the high-voltage CMOS active pixel sensor AstroPix for gamma-ray space telescopes
Yusuke Suda, Regina Caputo, Amanda L. Steinhebel +14
AstroPix is a novel monolithic high-voltage CMOS active pixel sensor proposed for next generation medium-energy gamma-ray observatories like the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Obs…
The Double-Sided Silicon Strip Detector Tracker onboard the ComPair Balloon Flight
Nicholas Kirschner, Carolyn Kierans, Sambid Wasti +7
The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) mission concept. AMEGO aims to bridge the spectral gap in sensitivity that…
The path toward 500 m depletion of AstroPix, a pixelated silicon HVCMOS sensor for space and EIC
Amanda L. Steinhebel, Jennifer Ott, Olivia Kroger +15
The precise reconstruction of Compton-scatter events is paramount for an imaging medium-energy gamma-ray telescope. The proposed AMEGO-X is enabled by a silicon tracker utilizing A…
The Anti-Coincidence Detector Subsystem for ComPair
Zachary Metzler, Nicholas Cannady, Daniel Shy +3
ComPair is a prototype gamma-ray telescope for the development of key technologies for next-generation gamma-ray detectors consisting of four subsystems: a 10-layer double-sided si…
The Compton-Pair telescope: A prototype for a next-generation MeV -ray observatory
Janeth Valverde, Nicholas Kirschner, Zachary Metzler +31
The Compton Pair (ComPair) telescope is a prototype that aims to develop the necessary technologies for future medium energy gamma-ray missions and to design, build, and test the p…
BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
Judith Racusin, Jeremy S. Perkins, Michael S. Briggs +12
BurstCube will detect long GRBs, attributed to the collapse of massive stars, short GRBs (sGRBs), resulting from binary neutron star mergers, as well as other gamma-ray transients…