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astro-ph.IM2026

In situ cryogenic characterization of proton damage in thick p-channel skipper CCDs

Brandon M. Roach, Brenda Cervantes Vergara, Alex Drlica-Wagner +14

Skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are an offshoot of standard silicon pixel detectors and are capable of performing repeated non-destructive charge measurements, enabling deepl…

astro-ph.IM2026

X-ray characterization of fully-depleted p-channel Skipper-CCDs for the DarkNESS mission

Phoenix Alpine, Ana M. Botti, Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara +11

The Dark matter Nanosatellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors (DarkNESS) mission is a 6U CubeSat designed to search for X-ray lines from decaying dark matter using Skipper-CCDs. Thic…

astro-ph.IM2026

Light-tight skipper-CCDs for X-ray detection in space

Ana M. Botti, Yikai Wu, Brenda Cervantes +6

Skipper Charge-Coupled Devices (skipper-CCDs) are pixelated silicon detectors with deep sub-electron resolution. Their radiation hardness and capability to reconstruct energy depos…

astro-ph.IM2025

DarkNESS: A skipper-CCD NanoSatellite for Dark Matter Searches

Phoenix Alpine, Samriddhi Bhatia, Ana M. Botti +16

The Dark matter Nanosatellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors (DarkNESS) deploys a recently developed skipper-CCD architecture with sub-electron readout noise in low Earth orbit (LEO…

astro-ph.IM20252 cited

Readout Optimization of Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-Coupled Devices for Single-Quantum Measurement

Ana M. Botti, Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara, Claudio R. Chavez +15

The non-destructive readout capability of the Skipper Charge Coupled Device (CCD) has been demonstrated to reduce the noise limitation of conventional silicon devices to levels tha…

astro-ph.IM2024

Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-coupled Devices for Next Generation Spectroscopy

Kenneth W. Lin, Armin Karcher, Julien Guy +6

We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable…