4 papers
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…
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…
Real-Time Convolutional Neural Network-Based Star Detection and Centroiding Method for CubeSat Star Tracker
Hongrui Zhao, Michael F. Lembeck, Adrian Zhuang +2
Star trackers are one of the most accurate celestial sensors used for absolute attitude determination. The devices detect stars in captured images and accurately compute their proj…
DarkNESS: developing a skipper-CCD instrument to search for Dark Matter from Low Earth Orbit
Phoenix Alpine, Samriddhi Bhatia, Fernando Chierchie +8
The DarkNESS (Dark Matter Nano-satellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors) mission aims to deploy a skipper-CCD CubeSat Observatory to search for dark matter (DM) from Low Earth Orbit…