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The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a mission design concept that uses coded masks seen by Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors to register hard X-rays in the energy region from 10 keV to 600 keV. A partially active or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Garson , H. Krawczynski , J. Grindlay , G. J. Fishman , C. A. Wilson

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are a powerful probe of the high redshift Universe. We present a tool to estimate the detection rate of high-z GRBs by a generic detector with defined energy band and sensitivity. We base this on a population model…

The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a proposed next generation multi-wavelength survey mission. The primary instrument is a High Energy telescope (HET) that conducts the deepest survey for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Hong , J. E. Grindlay , B. Allen , S. D. Barthelmy , G. K. Skinner , N. Gehrels , the EXIST HET Working Group

It has been established that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) can produce Very High Energy radiation (E > 100 GeV), opening a new window on the investigation of particle acceleration and radiation properties in the most energetic domain. We expect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 G. La Mura

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are powerful and highly variable sources of gamma rays that indicate the existence of cosmic particle accelerators. Under the assumption of hadronic acceleration in the jet, the expected neutrino energy spectrum is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-09 D. Dornic , G. Lelaizant

Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors are high sensitivity and high resolution devices for hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopic studies. The new series of CZT detector modules (OMS40G256) manufactured by Orbotech Medical Solutions (OMS),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Tilak B. Kotoch , Anuj Nandi , D. Debnath , J. P. Malkar , A. R. Rao , M. K. Hingar , Vaibhav. P. Madhav , S. Sreekumar , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

This thesis comprises the first three chapters dedicated to providing an overview of Gamma Ray-Bursts (GRBs), their properties, the instrumentation used to detect them, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in the context of GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Riccardo Crupi

The CsI detectors of the High Energy X-ray Telescope of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT/CsI) can be used for gamma-ray all sky monitoring and searching for the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational wave source. The…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a promising probe of the high-redshift Universe, but their detection remains observationally challenging. In this work, we explore the detectability of high-$z$ GRBs by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) aboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

The main methods grown Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystals with high yield and excellent homogeneity are Modified Horizontal Bridgman (MHB) and High Pressure Bridgman (HPB) processes, respectively. In this contribution, the readout system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Q. Li , A. Garson , P. Dowkontt , J. Martin , M. Beilicke , I. Jung , M. Groza , A. Burger , G. De Geronimo , H. Krawczynski , . , . , . , .

Being able to quickly select among gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) seen by the Swift satellite those which are high-z candidates would give ground-based observers a better chance to determine a redshift for such distant GRBs. Information about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 T. N. Ukwatta , T. Sakamoto , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , M. Stamatikos , J. Tueller

GW150914 marked the start of the gravitational wave (GW) era with the direct detection of binary black hole (BBH) merger by the LIGO-Virgo GW detectors. The event was temporally coincident with a weak signal detected by Fermi-GBM, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Gaurav Waratkar , Varun Bhalerao , Dipankar Bhattacharya

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is a coded aperture gamma-ray instrument with a large field of view that was designed to detect and localize transient events. When a transient is detected, either on-board or externally, the BAT saves…

The use of photon counting detection technology has resulted in significant X-ray imaging research interest in recent years. Computed Tomography (CT) scanners can benefit from photon-counting detectors, which are new technology with the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 K. Hameed , Rafidah Zainon , Mahbubunnabi Tamal

As the number of observed Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) continues to grow, follow-up resources need to be used more efficiently in order to maximize science output from limited telescope time. As such, it is becoming increasingly important to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam N. Morgan , James Long , Joseph W. Richards , Tamara Broderick , Nathaniel R. Butler , Joshua S. Bloom

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of gamma-ray radiation observed up to a high redshift ($z \sim 10$) due to their luminosities. Thus, they can serve as cosmological tools to probe the early Universe. However, we need…

A considerable fraction of incident high-energy photons from astrophysical transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is Compton scattered by the Earth's atmosphere. These photons, sometimes referred to as the "reflection component",…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-21 Sourav Palit , Akash Anumarlapudi , Varun Bhalerao

Transient and variable phenomena in astrophysical sources are of particular importance to understand the underlying gamma-ray emission processes. In the very-high energy gamma-ray domain, transient and variable sources are related to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 F. Brun , Q. Piel , M. de Naurois , S. Bernhard