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First results from PADRE/MeDDEA: X-rays from a flare and its CME
Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Säm Krucker, Olivier Limousin +22
The MeDDEA hard X-ray spectrometer onboard NASAs PADRE CubeSat operates four flight-spare detectors from the Solar Orbiter/STIX instrument. This paper aims to evaluate the accuracy…
GRINTA: a new Probe of the Dynamic Universe
Lorenzo Natalucci, Philippe Laurent, Marica Branchesi +48
Recent observations of the transient sky at all wavelengths are increasingly revealing the importance of the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength approach. The GRINTA (Gamma-Ray IN…
The IRT Telescope on board the THESEUS mission
Diego Gotz, Aline Meuris, Eric Doumayrou +28
We present the Infra-Red Telescope (IRT), which is part of the payload of the THESEUS mission, one on the three phase A candidate missions for the M7 slot of ESA (launch date 2037)…
In-flight performance of the MXT Camera
M. Moita, A. Meuris, P. Ferrando +8
On-board the SVOM mission, the Microchannel X-ray Telescope observes the soft X-ray band of the gamma-ray bursts afterglows. The so-called lobster-eye optics focuses X-rays to the…
The Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM mission: in-flight scientific performance
D. Götz, S. Crepaldi, E. Doumayrou +14
The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is a compact and lightweight focusing X-ray telescope, which is part of the space payload of the SVOM mission. The main goal of the MXT instr…
Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with the COMCUBE-S CubeSat Swarm -- Design and Performance Simulations
Nathan Franel, Vincent Tatischeff, David Murphy +29
COMCUBE-S (COMCUBE-S (Compton Telescope CubeSat Swarm) is a proposed mission aimed at understanding the radiation mechanisms of ultra-relativistic jets from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)…
Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based on proton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego Götz, Aline Meuris +4
SVOM, the Space-based Variable astronomical Object Monitor, launched on June 22nd 2024, is a Chinese-French mission focused on exploring the brightest phenomena in the cosmos - Gam…
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 TRILL project: increasing the technological readiness of Laue lenses
Lisa Ferro, Enrico Virgilli, Miguel Moita +16
Hard X-/soft Gamma-ray astronomy (> 100 keV) is a crucial field for the study of important astrophysical phenomena such as the 511 keV positron annihilation line in the Galactic ce…
COMPLETE: A flagship mission for complete understanding of 3D coronal magnetic energy release
Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton, Roberto Casini +12
COMPLETE is a flagship mission concept combining broadband spectroscopic imaging and comprehensive magnetography from multiple viewpoints around the Sun to enable tomographic recon…
CdTe Spectroscopic-Imager Measurements with Bent Crystals for Broad Band Laue Lenses
N. Auricchio, L. Ferro, J. B. Stephen +15
In astrophysics, several key questions in the hard X soft Gamma-ray range (above 100 keV) require sensitivity and angular resolution that are hardly achievable with current technol…
Spectral performance of the Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM mission
B. Schneider, N. Renault-Tinacci, D. Götz +7
The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is an innovative compact X-ray instrument on board the SVOM astronomical mission dedicated to the study of transient phenomena such as gamma-…
The Scientific Performance of the Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM Mission
D. Gotz, M. Boutelier, V. Burwitz +17
The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) will be the first focusing X-ray telescope based on a "Lobster-Eye" optical design to be flown on Sino-French mission SVOM. SVOM will be dedi…
STIX X-ray microflare observations during the Solar Orbiter commissioning phase
Andrea Francesco Battaglia, Jonas Saqri, Paolo Massa +34
The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is the HXR instrument onboard Solar Orbiter designed to observe solar flares over a broad range of flare sizes, between 4-150 k…
IDeF-X HD: a CMOS ASIC for the readout of Cd(Zn)Te Detectors for space-borne applications
Olivier Gevin, Francis Lugiez, Alicja Michalowska +5
IDeF-X HD is a 32-channel analog front-end with self-triggering capability optimized for the readout of 16 x 16 pixels CdTe or CdZnTe pixelated detectors to build low power micro g…
Second generation of portable gamma camera based on Caliste CdTe hybrid technology
Daniel MAIER, Claire BLONDEL, Cyrille DELISLE +13
In the framework of a national funded program for nuclear safety, a first prototype of portable gamma camera was built and tested. It integrates a Caliste-HD CdTe-hybrid detector d…
PHEMTO : Polarimetric High Energy Modular Telescope Observatory
P. Laurent, F. Acero, V. Beckmann +27
With the opening of the X and gamma--ray windows in the sixties, thanks to to sounding rockets and satellite-borne instruments, extremely energetic and violent phenomena were disco…
All-Sky-ASTROGAM: The MeV Gamma-Ray Companion to Multimessenger Astronomy
V. Tatischeff, A. De Angelis, M. Tavani +33
All-Sky-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 100 keV to a few hundred MeV, recently proposed as the "Fast" (F) mission of the European Space Agenc…
The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP
ShuangNan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Marco Feroci +146
In this paper we present the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme conditions of…
The Large Area Detector onboard the eXTP mission
Marco Feroci, Mahdi Ahangarianabhari, Giovanni Ambrosi +68
The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently perfor…
The Microchannel X-ray Telescope on Board the SVOM Satellite
D. Gotz, C. Adami, S. Basa +18
We present the Micro-channel X-ray Telescope (MXT), a new narrow-field (about 1°) telescope that will be flying on the Sino-French SVOM mission dedicated to Gamma-Ray Burst science…
Hard X-ray polarimetry with Caliste, a high performance CdTe based imaging spectrometer
S. Antier, P. Ferrando, O. Limousin +11
Since the initial exploration of soft gamma-ray sky in the 60's, high-energy celestial sources have been mainly characterized through imaging, spectroscopy and timing analysis. Des…
ORIGAMIX, a CdTe-based spectro-imager development for nuclear applications
S. Dubos, H. Lemaire, S. Schanne +4
The Astrophysics Division of CEA Saclay has a long history in the development of CdTe based pixelated detection planes for X and gamma-ray astronomy, with time-resolved imaging and…