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We are planning a future gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission HiZ-GUNDAM to probe the early universe beyond the redshift of z > 7. Now we are developing a small prototype model of wide-field low-energy X-ray imaging detectors to observe high-z…

We propose and demonstrate a hybrid silicon and lithium niobate Michelson Interferometer Modulator (MIM) with enhanced modulation efficiency compared to a Mach-Zehnder modulator. The modulator is based on seamless integration of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Mengyue Xu , Wenjun Chen , Mingbo He , Xueqin Wen , Ziliang Ruan , Lifeng Chen , Liu Liu , Siyuan Yu , Xinlun Cai

The Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), detected its first short gamma-ray burst, GRB 240715A, in-flight, which was jointly observed by Fermi. Based on observational data of SVOM/GRM and Fermi/GBM, we perform…

The gamma-ray detector of HETE-2, called FREGATE, has been designed to detect gamma-ray bursts in the energy range [6-400] keV. Its main task is to alert the other instruments of the occurrence of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and to provide the…

On-board the SVOM mission, the Microchannel X-ray Telescope observes the soft X-ray band of the gamma-ray bursts afterglows. The so-called lobster-eye optics focuses X-rays to the camera subsystem that performs imaging and spectroscopy of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 M. Moita , A. Meuris , P. Ferrando , A. Sauvageon , H. Goto , D. Götz , C. Plasse , L. Godinaud , A. Fort , K. Mercier , S. Crepaldi

Gamma-ray polarization offers a unique probes into the geometry of the gamma-ray emission process in celestial objects. The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) onboard the X-ray observatory Hitomi is a Si/CdTe Compton camera and is expected to be…

We have implemented a control system for experiments in atomic, molecular and optical physics based on a commercial low-cost board, featuring a field-programmable gate array as part of a system-on-a-chip on which a Linux operating system is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Andreas Trenkwalder , Matteo Zaccanti , Nicola Poli

After more than six and half years in orbit, the ESA space observatory INTEGRAL has provided new, exciting results in the soft gamma-ray energy range (from a few keV to a few MeV). With the discovery of about 700 hard X-Ray sources, it has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 P. Ubertini , A. Corsi , S. Foley , S. McGlynn , G. De Cesare , A. Bazzano

Intense and complex instrumental backgrounds, against which the much smaller signals from celestial sources have to be discerned, are a notorious problem for low and intermediate energy gamma-ray astronomy (~50 keV - 10 MeV). Therefore a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Weidenspointner , M. J. Harris , S. Sturner , B. J. Teegarden , C. Ferguson

Advanced millimeter-wave software-defined array (SDA) platforms, or testbeds at affordable costs and high performance are essential for the wireless community. In this paper, we present a low-cost, portable, and programmable SDA that allows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Ashwini Pondeycherry Ganesh , Anthony Perre , Alphan Sahin , Ismail Guvenc , Brian A. Floyd

HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Technological and Scientific pathfinder is a space borne mission based on a LEO constellation of nano-satellites. The 3U CubeSat buses host new miniaturized detectors to probe the…

Graphene-based devices have shown great promise for several applications. For graphene devices to be used in real-world systems, it is necessary to demonstrate competitive device performance, repeatability of results, reliability, and a…

We present results on the Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) 0501+4516, discovered by the SWIFT Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on 2008 August 22. More than 50 bursts were identified from this source, out of which 18 bursts had enough counts to carry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Harsha S. Kumar , Alaa. I. Ibrahim , Samar Safi-Harb

We report on the catalog of Gamma--Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected with the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor aboard the BeppoSAX satellite. It includes 1082 GRBs with 40--700 keV fluences in the range from $1.3\times 10^{-7}$ to $4.5\times 10^{-4}$ erg…

The aim of this work is to test the capacity of a low cost but powerful device to be used in gamma spectrometry. The IZIRUNF0 [1] is an embedded STM32 board device with an ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller build in. The possibilities offered by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-23 Madalin Ilie Cherciu , Ciprian Mitu , Ioana Ion

The goal of the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSat is to explore the energy distribution of soft X-ray (SXR) emissions from the quiescent Sun, active regions, and during solar flares, and to model the impact on Earth's…

GRB 120323A is a very intense short Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) detected simultaneously during its prompt gamma-ray emission phase with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Konus experiment on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 S. Guiriec , N. Gehrels , J. McEnery , C. Kouveliotou , D. H. Hartmann

Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shaojiang Zhu , Xinyuan You , Alexander Romanenko , Anna Grassellino

The gravitational wave GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger and the simultaneous electromagnetic detection of the GRB170817A by Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, opened a new era in the multi-messenger astronomy. Furthermore, the GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Alessandro Drago , Simone Bini , Mariangela Cestelli Guidi , Augusto Marcelli , Valerio Bocci , Emanuele Pace

Submillimeter (submm) integral field units (IFUs) utilising kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are a promising instrument architecture for the study of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the large-scale structure of the Universe. In order to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 A. Moerman , N. Soshnin , S. A. Brackenhoff , S. O. Dabironezare , K. Karatsu , L. H. Marting , S. A. H. de Rooij , M. Roos , B. R. Brandl , A. Endo