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Simulation of proton-induced activation for low-Earth orbit high energy astrophysics missions
Riccardo Campana
Proton-induced activation represents a major source of instrumental background for high-energy astrophysics missions in low-Earth orbit, where trapped protons, particularly during…
The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) of the China-Europe eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission
Margarita Hernanz, Marco Feroci, Yuri Evangelista +58
The eXTP mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. Its scientific payload includes four instruments: SFA, PFA, LAD an…
STROBE-X High Energy Modular Array (HEMA)
Anthony L. Hutcheson, Marco Feroci, Andrea Argan +64
The High Energy Modular Array (HEMA) is one of three instruments that compose the STROBE-X mission concept. The HEMA is a large-area, high-throughput non-imaging pointed instrument…
The HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder mission
Y. Evangelista, F. Fiore, R. Campana +68
HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder is a space-borne mission based on a constellation of six nano-satellites flying in a low-Earth orbit (LEO). The…
SpIRIT Mission: In-Orbit Results and Technology Demonstrations
Michele Trenti, Miguel Ortiz del Castillo, Robert Mearns +13
The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) 6U CubeSat is a mission led by The University of Melbourne in cooperation with the Italian Space Agency. Launched in a 51…
The HERMES Calibration Pipeline: mescal
G. Dilillo, E. J. Marchesini, G. Della Casa +13
The HERMES Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder project is a constellation of six CubeSats aiming to observe transient high-energy events such as the Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). HERM…
The X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) on-board THESEUS: design, main characteristics, and concept of operation
Claudio Labanti, Lorenzo Amati, Filippo Frontera +58
THESEUS is one of the three missions selected by ESA as fifth medium class mission (M5) candidates in its Cosmic Vision science program, currently under assessment in a phase A stu…
An innovative architecture for a wide band transient monitor on board the HERMES nano-satellite constellation
F. Fuschino, R. Campana, C. Labanti +35
The HERMES-TP/SP mission, based on a nanosatellite constellation, has very stringent constraints of sensitivity and compactness, and requires an innovative wide energy range instru…
The X-Gamma Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) onboard THESEUS
R. Campana, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti +20
A compact and modular X and gamma-ray imaging spectrometer (XGIS) has been designed as one of the instruments foreseen on-board the THESEUS mission proposed in response to the ESA…
A compact and modular X and gamma-ray detector with a CsI scintillator and double-readout Silicon Drift Detectors
R. Campana, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti +20
A future compact and modular X and gamma-ray spectrometer (XGS) has been designed and a series of prototypes have been developed and tested. The experiment envisages the use of CsI…
GAME: Grb and All-sky Monitor Experiment
L. Amati, J. Braga, F. Frontera +20
We describe the GRB and All-sky Monitor Experiment (GAME) mission submitted by a large international collaboration (Italy, Germany, Czech Repubblic, Slovenia, Brazil) in response t…
LOFT - a Large Observatory For x-ray Timing
M. Feroci, L. Stella, A. Vacchi +46
The high time resolution observations of the X-ray sky hold the key to a number of diagnostics of fundamental physics, some of which are unaccessible to other types of investigatio…