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Development of the ComPair gamma-ray telescope prototype

There is a growing interest in the science uniquely enabled by observations in the MeV range, particularly in light of multi-messenger astrophysics. The Compton Pair (ComPair) telescope, a prototype of the AMEGO Probe-class concept,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Daniel Shy , Carolyn Kierans , Nicolas Cannady , Regina Caputo , Sean Griffin , J. Eric Grove , Elizabeth Hays , Emily Kong , Nicholas Kirschner , Iker Liceaga-Indart , Julie McEnery , John Mitchell , A. A. Moiseev , Lucas Parker , Jeremy S. Perkins , Bernard Phlips , Makoto Sasaki , Adam J. Schoenwald , Clio Sleator , Jacob Smith , Lucas D. Smith , Sambid Wasti , Richard Woolf , Eric Wulf , Anna Zajczyk

GAMPix: a novel fine-grained, low-noise and ultra-low power pixelated charge readout for TPCs

We report on the development of a novel pixel charge readout system, Grid Activated Multi-scale pixel readout (GAMPix), which is under development for use in the GammaTPC gamma ray instrument concept. GammaTPC is being developed to optimize…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-05 Tom Shutt , Bahrudin Trbalic , Aldo Pena-Perez , Steffen Luitz , Mark Convery , Angelo Dragone , Lorenzo Rota , Dietrich R. Freytag , Dionisio Doering , Filippo Mele , Miriam Moore , Hiro Tanaka , Yun-Tse Tsai

A Combined Compton and Coded-aperture Telescope for Medium-energy Gamma-ray Astrophysics

A future mission in medium-energy gamma-ray astrophysics would allow for many scientific advancements, e.g. a possible explanation for the excess positron emission from the Galactic Center, a better understanding of nucleosynthesis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Michelle Galloway , Andreas Zoglauer , Steven E. Boggs , Mark Amman

Performance Evaluation of a silicon-based 6U Cubesat detector for soft $\gamma$-ray astronomy

The observation of the low-energy $\gamma$-ray (0.1-30 MeV) sky has been significantly limited since the COMPTEL instrument was decommissioned aboard the Compton Gamma-ray Observer (CGRO) satellite in 2000. The exploration of $\gamma$-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Rishank Diwan , Kees de Kuijper , Partha Sarathi Pal , Andreas Ritter , Pablo Saz Parkinson , Andy C. T. Kong , Quentin Parker

MOSARIX: Progress Report

MOSARIX is a collaborative project between three research group in Sorbonne University to build a x-ray spectrometer (2-5 keV) portable to large scale facilities with high efficiency and good resolution. X-ray spectroscopy and coincidences…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-12 Iyas Ismail , Marc Simon , Francis Penent

HASPIDE-SPACE: a new concept of a radiation-resistant instrument for solar energetic particles

Galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles (SEPs) affect the performance of instruments carried on board space missions and are the source of the absorbed dose to astronauts. Particles above 100 MeV are the most penetrating. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-26 C. Grimani , M. Fabi , M. Menichelli , F. Sabbatini M. Villani , S. Aziz , L. Barraud , A. Bashiri , C. Buti , L. Calcagnile , D. Calvo , D. Caputo , A. P. Caricato , R. Catalano , M. Cazzanelli , R. Cirio , G. A. P. Cirrone , F. Cittadini , T. Croci , G. Cuttone , G. de Cesare , P. De Remigis , S. Dunand , L. Frontini , M. Guarrera , H. Hasnaoui , G. Insero , M. Ionica , K. Kanxheri , G. Konstantinou , M. Large , F. Lenta , V. Liberali , N. Lovecchio , M. Martino , G. Maruccio , G. Mazza , A. G. Monteduro , A. Morozzi , A. Nascetti , S. Pallotta , D. Passeri , M. Pedio , M. Petasecca , G. Petringa , F. Peverini , P. Placidi , M. Polo , A. Quaranta , G. Quarta , S. Rizzato , A. Stabile , C. Talamonti , L. Tosti , M. S. Vasquez Mora , R. J. Wheadon , N. Wyrsch , N. Zema , L. Servoli

The Joint astrophysical Plasmadynamic EXperiment (J-PEX): A high-resolution rocket spectrometer

We report on the successful sounding rocket flight of the high resolution (R=3000-4000) J-PEX EUV spectrometer. J-PEX is a novel normal incidence instrument, which combines the focusing and dispersive elements of the spectrometer into a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 M. A. Barstow , N. P. Bannister , R. G. Cruddace , M. P. Kowalski , K. S. Wood , D. J. Yentis , H. Gursky , T. W. Barbee, , W. H. Goldstein , J. F. Kordas , G. G. Fritz , J. L. Culhane , J. S. Lapingtone

The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe via a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tadayuki Takahashi , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Richard Kelley , Henri AartsFelix Aharonian , Hiroki Akamatsu , Fumie Akimoto , Steve Allen , Naohisa Anabuki , Lorella Angelini , Keith Arnaud , Makoto Asai , Marc Audard , Hisamitsu Awaki , Philipp Azzarello , Chris Baluta , Aya Bamba , Nobutaka Bando , Mark Bautz , Roger Blandford , Kevin Boyce , Greg Brown , Ed Cackett , Maria Chernyakova , Paolo Coppi , Elisa Costantini , Jelle de Plaa , Jan-Willem den Herder , Michael DiPirro , Chris Done , Tadayasu Dotani , John Doty , Ken Ebisawa , Megan Eckart , Teruaki Enoto , Yuichiro Ezoe , Andrew Fabian , Carlo Ferrigno , Adam Foster , Ryuichi Fujimoto , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Akihiro Furuzawa , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Luigi Gallo , Poshak Gandhi , Keith Gendreau , Kirk Gilmore , Daniel Haas , Yoshito Haba , Kenji Hamaguchi , Isamu Hatsukade , Takayuki Hayashi , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Junko Hiraga , Kazuyuki Hirose , Ann Hornschemeier , Akio Hoshino , John Hughes , Una Hwang , Ryo Iizuka , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Kazunori Ishibashi , Manabu Ishida , Kosei Ishimura , Yoshitaka Ishisaki , Masayuki Ito , Naoko Iwata , Naoko Iyomoto , Jelle Kaastra , Timothy Kallman , Tuneyoshi Kamae , Jun Kataoka , Satoru Katsuda , Hajime Kawahara , Madoka Kawaharada , Nobuyuki Kawai , Shigeo Kawasaki , Dmitry Khangaluyan , Caroline Kilbourne , Masashi Kimura , Kenzo Kinugasa , Shunji Kitamoto , Tetsu Kitayama , Takayoshi Kohmura , Motohide Kokubun , Tatsuro Kosaka , Alex Koujelev , Katsuji Koyama , Hans Krimm , Aya Kubota , Hideyo Kunieda , Stephanie LaMassa , Philippe Laurent , Francois Lebrun , Maurice Leutenegger , Olivier Limousin , Michael Loewenstein , Knox Long , David Lumb , Grzegorz Madejski , Yoshitomo Maeda , Kazuo Makishima , Genevieve Marchand , Maxim Markevitch , Hironori Matsumoto , Kyoko Matsushita , Dan McCammon , Brian McNamara , Jon Miller , Eric Miller , Shin Mineshige , Kenji Minesugi , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Takuya Miyazawa , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Hideyuki Mori , Koji Mori , Koji Mukai , Toshio Murakami , Hiroshi Murakami , Richard Mushotzky , Housei Nagano , Ryo Nagino , Takao Nakagawa , Hiroshi Nakajima , Takeshi Nakamori , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Yoshiharu Namba , Chikara Natsukari , Yusuke Nishioka , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Masaharu Nomachi , Steve O' Dell , Hirokazu Odaka , Hiroyuki Ogawa , Mina Ogawa , Keiji Ogi , Takaya Ohashi , Masanori Ohno , Masayuki Ohta , Takashi Okajima , Atsushi Okamoto , Tsuyoshi Okazaki , Naomi Ota , Masanobu Ozaki , Frits Paerels , Stephane Paltani , Arvind Parmar , Robert Petre , Martin Pohl , F. Scott Porter , Brian Ramsey , Rubens Reis , Christopher Reynolds , Helen Russell , Samar Safi-Harb , Shin-ichiro Sakai , Hiroaki Sameshima , Jeremy Sanders , Goro Sato , Rie Sato , Yoichi Sato , Kosuke Sato , Makoto Sawada , Peter Serlemitsos , Hiromi Seta , Yasuko Shibano , Maki Shida , Takanobu Shimada , Keisuke Shinozaki , Peter Shirron , Aurora Simionescu , Cynthia Simmons , Randall Smith , Gary Sneiderman , Yang Soong , Lukasz Stawarz , Yasuharu Sugawara , Hiroyuki Sugita , Satoshi Sugita , Andrew Szymkowiak , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Shin-ichiro Takeda , Yoh Takei , Toru Tamagawa , Takayuki Tamura , Keisuke Tamura , Takaaki Tanaka , Yasuo Tanaka , Makoto Tashiro , Yuzuru Tawara , Yukikatsu Terada , Yuichi Terashima , Francesco Tombesi , Hiroshi Tomida , Yoko Tsuboi , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Takeshi Tsuru , Hiroyuki Uchida , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Hideki Uchiyama , Yoshihiro Ueda , Shiro Ueno , Shinichiro Uno , Meg Urry , Eugenio Ursino , Cor de Vries , Atsushi Wada , Shin Watanabe , Norbert Werner , Nicholas White , Takahiro Yamada , Shinya Yamada , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Noriko Yamasaki , Shigeo Yamauchi , Makoto Yamauchi , Yoichi Yatsu , Daisuke Yonetoku , Atsumasa Yoshida , Takayuki Yuasa

Signal readout for Transition-Edge Sensor X-ray imaging spectrometers

Arrays of low-temperature microcalorimeters provide a promising technology for X-ray astrophysics: the imaging spectrometer. A camera with at least several thousand pixels, each of which has an energy-resolving power ($E/\Delta…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 H. Akamatsu , W. B. Doriese , J. A. B. Mates , B. D. Jackson

Development of a Silicon Tracker for the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory Prototype

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team

Science with e-ASTROGAM (A space mission for MeV-GeV gamma-ray astrophysics)

e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 A. De Angelis , V. Tatischeff , I. A. Grenier , J. McEnery , M. Mallamaci , M. Tavani , U. Oberlack , L. Hanlon , R. Walter , A. Argan , P. Von Ballmoos , A. Bulgarelli , A. Bykov , M. Hernanz , G. Kanbach , I. Kuvvetli , M. Pearce , A. Zdziarski , J. Conrad , G. Ghisellini , A. Harding , J. Isern , M. Leising , F. Longo , G. Madejski , M. Martinez , M. N. Mazziotta , J. M. Paredes , M. Pohl , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Aboudan , M. Ackermann , A. Addazi , M. Ajello , C. Albertus , J. M. Alvarez , G. Ambrosi , S. Anton , L. A. Antonelli , A. Babic , B. Baibussinov , M. Balbo , L. Baldini , S. Balman , C. Bambi , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , R. Bartels , D. Bastieri , W. Bednarek , D. Bernard , E. Bernardini , T. Bernasconi , B. Bertucci , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , M. Boettcher , V. Bonvicini , V. Bosch Ramon , E. Bottacini , V. Bozhilov , T. Bretz , M. Branchesi , V. Brdar , T. Bringmann , A. Brogna , C. Budtz Jorgensen , G. Busetto , S. Buson , M. Busso , A. Caccianiga , S. Camera , R. Campana , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , P. Carlson , S. Celestin , M. Cermeno , A. Chen , C. C Cheung , E. Churazov , S. Ciprini , A. Coc , S. Colafrancesco , A. Coleiro , W. Collmar , P. Coppi , R. Curado da Silva , S. Cutini , F. DAmmando , B. De Lotto , D. de Martino , A. De Rosa , M. Del Santo , L. Delgado , R. Diehl , S. Dietrich , A. D. Dolgov , A. Dominguez , D. Dominis Prester , I. Donnarumma , D. Dorner , M. Doro , M. Dutra , D. Elsaesser , M. Fabrizio , A. FernandezBarral , V. Fioretti , L. Foffano , V. Formato , N. Fornengo , L. Foschini , A. Franceschini , A. Franckowiak , S. Funk , F. Fuschino , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , R. Gehrz , P. Giammaria , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , G. Ghirlanda , N. Godinovic , C. Gouiffes , J. E. Grove , C. Hamadache , D. H. Hartmann , M. Hayashida , A. Hryczuk , P. Jean , T. Johnson , J. Jose , S. Kaufmann , B. Khelifi , J. Kiener , J. Knodlseder , M. Kole , J. Kopp , V. Kozhuharov , C. Labanti , S. Lalkovski , P. Laurent , O. Limousin , M. Linares , E. Lindfors , M. Lindner , J. Liu , S. Lombardi , F. Loparco , R. LopezCoto , M. Lopez Moya , B. Lott , P. Lubrano , D. Malyshev , N. Mankuzhiyil , K. Mannheim , M. J. Marcha , A. Marciano , B. Marcote , M. Mariotti , M. Marisaldi , S. McBreen , S. Mereghetti , A. Merle , R. Mignani , G. Minervini , A. Moiseev , A. Morselli , F. Moura , K. Nakazawa , L. Nava , D. Nieto , M. Orienti , M. Orio , E. Orlando , P. Orleanski , S. Paiano , R. Paoletti , A. Papitto , M. Pasquato , B. Patricelli , M. A. PerezGarcia , M. Persic , G. Piano , A. Pichel , M. Pimenta , C. Pittori , T. Porter , J. Poutanen , E. Prandini , N. Prantzos , N. Produit , S. Profumo , F. S. Queiroz , S. Raino , A. Raklev , M. Regis , I. Reichardt , Y. Rephaeli , J. Rico , W. Rodejohann , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , M. Roncadelli , L. Roso , A. Rovero , R. Ruffini , G. Sala , M. A. SanchezConde , A. Santangelo , P. Saz Parkinson , T. Sbarrato , A. Shearer , R. Shellard , K. Short , T. Siegert , C. Siqueira , P. Spinelli , A. Stamerra , S. Starrfield , A. Strong , I. Strumke , F. Tavecchio , R. Taverna , T. Terzic , D. J. Thompson , O. Tibolla , D. F. Torres , R. Turolla , A. Ulyanov , A. Ursi , A. Vacchi , J. Van den Abeele , G. Vankova Kirilovai , C. Venter , F. Verrecchia , P. Vincent , X. Wang , C. Weniger , X. Wu , G. Zaharijas , L. Zampieri , S. Zane , S. Zimmer , A. Zoglauer , the eASTROGAM collaboration

Semiconductor Detector Developments for High Energy Space Astronomy

The rise of high energy astrophysics and solar physics in the 20th century is linked to the development of space telescopes; since the 1960s they have given access to the X-ray and gamma-ray sky, revealing the most violent phenomena in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-09 Aline Meuris

AMEGO-X: MeV gamma-ray Astronomy in the Multimessenger Era

Recent detections of gravitational wave signals and neutrinos from gamma-ray sources have ushered in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, while highlighting the importance of gamma-ray observations for this emerging field. AMEGO-X, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Henrike Fleischhack

Study of silicon photomultipliers for the readout of scintillator crystals in the proposed GRIPS \gamma-ray astronomy mission

Among the top priorities for high-energy astronomy in the coming decade are sensitive surveys in the hard X-ray/soft \gamma-ray (10-600 keV) and medium-energy \gamma-ray (0.2-80 MeV) bands. Historically, observations in the soft and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 Alexei Ulyanov , Lorraine Hanlon , Sheila McBreen , Suzanne Foley , David Byrne

The latest on Apertif

We describe a Phased Array Feed (PAF) system, called Apertif, which will be installed in the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The aim of Apertif is, at frequencies from 1.0 to 1.7 GHz, to increase the instantaneous field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 Tom Oosterloo , Marc Verheijen , Wim van Cappellen

A-STAR: The All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter

The small mission A-STAR (All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter) aims to locate the X-ray counterparts to ALIGO and other gravitational wave detector sources, to study the poorly-understood low luminosity gamma-ray bursts, and to find a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. P. Osborne , P. O'Brien , P. Evans , G. W. Fraser , A. Martindale , J. -L. Atteia , B. Cordier , S. Mereghetti

Design, development, and commissioning of a flexible test setup for the AXIS prototype detector

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is one of two candidate mission concepts selected for Phase-A study for the new NASA Astrophysics Probe Explorer (APEX) mission class, with a planned launch in 2032. The X-ray camera for AXIS is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Abigail Y. Pan , Haley R. Stueber , Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , Steven W. Allen , Marshall W. Bautz , Kevan Donlon , Catherine E. Grant , Sven Hermann , Beverly LaMarr , Andrew Malonis , Eric D. Miller , Glenn Morris , Peter Orel , Artem Poliszczuk , Gregory Prigozhin , Dan Wilkins

Compton Telescopes for Gamma-ray Astrophysics

Compton telescopes rely on the dominant interaction mechanism in the MeV gamma-ray energy range: Compton scattering. By precisely recording the position and energy of multiple Compton scatter interactions in a detector volume, a photon's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Carolyn Kierans , Tadayuki Takahashi , Gottfried Kanbach

In-flight performance of the DAMPE silicon tracker

DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) is a spaceborne high-energy cosmic ray and gamma-ray detector, successfully launched in December 2015. It is designed to probe astroparticle physics in the broad energy range from few GeV to 100 TeV.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 A. Tykhonov , G. Ambrosi , R. Asfandiyarov , P. Azzarello , P. Bernardini , B. Bertucci , A. Bolognini , F. Cadoux , A. D'Amone , A. De Benedittis , I. De Mitri , M. Di Santo , Y. F. Dong , M. Duranti , D. D'Urso , R. R. Fan , P. Fusco , V. Gallo , M. Gao , F. Gargano , S. Garrappa , K. Gong , M. Ionica , D. La Marra , F. Loparco , G. Marsella , M. N. Mazziotta , W. X. Peng , R. Qiao , M. M. Salinas , A. Surdo , V. Vagelli , S. Vitillo , H. Y. Wang , J. Z. Wang , Z. M. Wang , D. Wu , X. Wu , F. Zhang , J. Y. Zhang , H. Zhao , S. Zimmer

newASTROGAM -- The New MeV to GeV Gamma-ray Observatory

newASTROGAM is a breakthrough mission concept for the study of the non-thermal Universe from space with gamma rays in the energy range from 15 keV to 3 GeV. It is based on advanced space-proven detector technologies, which will achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 D. Berge , M. N. Mazziotta , M. Tavani , V. Tatischeff , U. Oberlack