The HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder mission
Abstract
HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder is a space-borne mission based on a constellation of six nano-satellites flying in a low-Earth orbit (LEO). The 3U CubeSats, to be launched in early 2025, host miniaturized instruments with a hybrid Silicon Drift Detector/GAGG:Ce scintillator photodetector system, sensitive to X-rays and gamma-rays in a large energy band. HERMES will operate in conjunction with Australian Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) 6U CubeSat, launched in December 2023. HERMES will probe the temporal emission of bright high-energy transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), ensuring a fast transient localization in a field of view of several steradians exploiting the triangulation technique. HERMES intrinsically modular transient monitoring experiment represents a keystone capability to complement the next generation of gravitational wave experiments. In this paper we outline the scientific case, development and programmatic status of the mission
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@article{arxiv.2409.00989,
title = {The HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder mission},
author = {Y. Evangelista and F. Fiore and R. Campana and G. Baroni and F. Ceraudo and G. Della Casa and E. Demenev and G. Dilillo and M. Fiorini and G. Ghirlanda and M. Grassi and A. Guzmán and P. Hedderman and E. J. Marchesini and G. Morgante and F. Mele and L. Nava and P. Nogara and A. Nuti and S. Pliego Caballero and I. Rashevskaya and F. Russo and G. Sottile and M. Lavagna and A. Colagrossi and S. Silvestrini and M. Quirino and M. Bechini and A. Brandonisio and F. De Cecio and A. Dottori and i. Troisi and R. Bertacin and P. Bellutti and G. Bertuccio and L. Burderi and T. Chen and M. Citossi and T. Di Salvo and M. Feroci and F. Ficorella and N. Gao and C. Grappasonni and C. Labanti and G. La Rosa and W. Leone and P. Malcovati and B. Negri and G. Pepponi and M. Perri and R. Piazzolla and A. Picciotto and S. Pirrotta and S. Puccetti and A. Rashevsky and A. Riggio and M. Rinaldi and A. Sanna and A. Santangelo and C. Tenzer and A. Tiberia and M. Trenti and S. Trevisan and A. Vacchi and S. Xiong and G. Zampa and N. Zampa and S. Zhang and N. Zorzi and J. Ripa and N. Werner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00989},
year = {2024}
}
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13 pages, 16 figures. Proceedings of SPIE "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation" 2024. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2210.13866