3 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
High-cadence observations of galactic nuclei by the future two-band UV-photometry mission QUVIK
Michal ZajaÄek, Norbert Werner, Henry Best +12
The Quick Ultra-VIolet Kilonova surveyor (QUVIK), a two-band UV space telescope approved for funding as a Czech national science and technology mission, will focus on detecting ear…
astro-ph.IM2025
Characterization of more than three years of in-orbit radiation damage of SiPMs on GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2 CubeSats
Jakub Ripa, Marianna Dafcikova, Pavel Kosik +42
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are prone to radiation damage which causes an increase of dark count rate. This leads to an increase in low-energy threshold in a gamma-ray detecto…
astro-ph.HE2024
GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations
Filip Münz, Jakub ÅÃpa, András Pál +31
GRBAlpha is a 1U CubeSat launched in March 2021 to a sun-synchronous LEO at an altitude of 550 km to perform an in-orbit demonstration of a novel gamma-ray burst detector developed…