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The main objective of the IBIS modeling activities is the generation of the IBIS spectral response matrix. This generation will be done step by step by firstly constructing "calibrated model" of each IBIS sub-systems. A "calibrated model"…

In this work we study the tomography of the spatial structure of light. We develop a simple technique that allows one to perform the tomography over the space of fixed order modes. The technique is based on two spatially resolved intensity…

This work describes the design and implementation of optics for EXCLAIM, the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping. EXCLAIM is a balloon-borne telescope that will measure integrated line emission from carbon monoxide…

We demonstrate a compact, cost-effective snapshot spectral imaging system named Aperture Diffraction Imaging Spectrometer (ADIS), which consists only of an imaging lens with an ultra-thin orthogonal aperture mask and a mosaic filter sensor,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tao Lv , Hao Ye , Quan Yuan , Zhan Shi , Yibo Wang , Shuming Wang , Xun Cao

We discuss the design and performance of TEXES, the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph. TEXES is a mid-infrared (5-25 um) spectrograph with several operating modes: high-resolution, cross-dispersed with a resolving power of R=100,000,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Lacy , M. J. Richter , T. K. Greathouse , D. T. Jaffe , Q. Zhu

Electron tracking based Compton imaging is a key technique to improve the sensitivity of Compton cameras by measuring the initial direction of recoiled electrons. To realize this technique in semiconductor Compton cameras, we propose a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Hiroki Yoneda , Shinya Saito , Shin Watanabe , Hirokazu Ikeda , Tadayuki Takahashi

A new technique for medical imaging, "3{\gamma} imaging", is studied by our group at SUBATECH for few years. A small liquid xenon time projection chamber prototype has been built in order to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique.…

Photonic technologies offer numerous advantages for astronomical instruments such as spectrographs and interferometers owing to their small footprints and diverse range of functionalities. Operating at the diffraction-limit, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 N. Jovanovic , C. Schwab , O. Guyon , J. Lozi , N. Cvetojevic , F. Martinache , S. Leon-Saval , B. Norris , S. Gross , D. Doughty , T. Currie , N. Takato

The Compton Pair (ComPair) telescope is a prototype that aims to develop the necessary technologies for future medium energy gamma-ray missions and to design, build, and test the prototype in a gamma-ray beam and balloon flight. The ComPair…

The PICsIT detector onboard the INTEGRAL satellite was designed to provide information about emission in the soft gamma-ray band for many bright sources. Due to strong and variable instrumental background, only 4 objects have been detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Lubinski

High angular resolution X-ray imaging is always demanded by astrophysics and solar physics, which can be realized by coded-mask imaging with very long mask-detector distance in principle. Previously the diffraction-interference effect has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Zhang , Shuang Nan Zhang

Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique mechanism for producing fast pulses - picosecond and below - of bright X- to gamma-rays. These nominally narrow spectral bandwidth electromagnetic radiation pulses are efficiently produced in the…

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments that constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ are now approaching the sensitivity at which delensing---removing the $B$ modes induced by the gravitational lensing of large-scale structure---is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Kirit S. Karkare

The uncertainty of the energy measurement of the electron beam on circular electron positron collider (CEPC) must be smaller than 10$\mathrm{MeV}$ to make sure the accurate measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson. In order to simplify…

Characterise the large-scale structure in the Universe from present times to the high redshift epoch of reionisation is essential to constraining the cosmology, the history of star formation and reionisation, measuring the gas content of…

Analysis of INTEGRAL Core Program and public Open Time observations has recently provided a sample of 60 extragalactic sources selected in the 20-100 keV band above a flux of 1.5 10^-11 erg/cm2/s. As this band probes heavily obscured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Bassani , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a Compton telescope designed to survey the 0.2 - 5 MeV sky, consisting of a compact array of cross-strip germanium detectors. It is planned to be launched in 2027 into an equatorial low-Earth…

This work presents a high-resolution X-ray microtomography system that uses commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) CMOS image sensors as direct detectors, relying on the sensor s intrinsic resolution to achieve tomographic reconstructions without…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Damian L. Corzi , Jose Lipovetzky , Fabricio Alcalde Bessia , German Mato , Andres Cicuttin , Maria L. Crespo , Martin Perez , Mariano Gomez Berisso

The INTEGRAL satellite, which studies the Universe in the hard X-ray and soft Gamma-ray domain, has been operational for 5 years now. The X-ray telescopes, which use the coded mask technique, provide unprecedented spectral and imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Volker Beckmann

The shape of the undepleted volume of a p-type high-purity Broad Energy Germanium detector, dependent on the bias voltage, has been imaged by measuring spatially-resolved Compton-scattering efficiency. The bias voltage was raised stepwise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-18 Iris Abt , Arthur Butorev , Felix Hagemann , David Hervas Aguilar , Johanna Lührs , Julia Penner , Oliver Schulz