8 papers
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Antarctic Balloon Payload
The GAPS Collaboration, Kazutaka Aoyama, Tsuguo Aramaki +65
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic stratospheric balloon mission designed to provide unmatched sensitivity to low-energy (<0.25 GeV/n) cosmic-ray antiprot…
CubeSats Reach the Millisecond X-Ray Domain: Crab Pulsar Timing with SpIRIT/HERMES
Wladimiro Leone, R. Mearns, T. Di Salvo +70
The High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) instrument is a compact X/-ray spectrometer operating on board the 6U (11 kg) SpIRIT CubeSat. The payload is parti…
Development of a High-Resolution, High-Dynamic-Range Charge Detector for Ion Beam Monitoring
O. Adriani, E. Berti, P. Betti +14
We present an innovative charge detector with high resolution and wide dynamic range designed to fulfill the requirements of a monitoring system for a high energy ion beam. The det…
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…
The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument
Ronald A. Remillard, Margarita Hernanz, Jean in 't Zand +26
The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in r…
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…