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Current $\gamma$-ray telescopes suffer from a gap in sensitivity in the energy range between 100keV and 100MeV, and no polarisation measurement has ever been done on cosmic sources above 1MeV. Past and present e$^+$e$^-$ pair telescopes are…

IDeF-X HD is a 32-channel analog front-end with self-triggering capability optimized for the readout of 16 x 16 pixels CdTe or CdZnTe pixelated detectors to build low power micro gamma camera. IDeF-X HD has been designed in the standard AMS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-04 Olivier Gevin , Francis Lugiez , Alicja Michalowska , Aline Meuris , Olivier Limousin , Eric Delagnes , Olivier Lemaire , Frédéric Pinsard

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 by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tadayuki Takahashi , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Richard Kelley , Felix Aharonian , Fumie Akimoto , Steve Allen , Naohisa Anabuki , Lorella Angelini , Keith Arnaud , Hisamitsu Awaki , Aya Bamba , Nobutaka Bando , Mark Bautz , Roger Blandford , Kevin Boyce , Greg Brown , Maria Chernyakova , Paolo Coppi , Elisa Costantini , Jean Cottam , John Crow , Jelle de Plaa , Cor de Vries , Jan-Willem den Herder , Michael DiPirro , Chris Done , Tadayasu Dotani , Ken Ebisawa , Teruaki Enoto , Yuichiro Ezoe , Andrew Fabian , Ryuichi Fujimoto , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Akihiro Furuzawa , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Poshak Gandhi , Keith Gendreau , Kirk Gilmore , Yoshito Haba , Kenji Hamaguchi , Isamu Hatsukade , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Junko Hiraga , Kazuyuki Hirose , Ann Hornschemeier , John Hughes , Una Hwang , Ryo Iizuka , Kazunori Ishibashi , Manabu Ishida , Kosei Ishimura , Yoshitaka Ishisaki , Naoki Isobe , Masayuki Ito , Naoko Iwata , Jelle Kaastra , Timothy Kallman , Tuneyoshi Kamae , Hideaki Katagiri , Jun Kataoka , Satoru Katsuda , Madoka Kawaharada , Nobuyuki Kawai , Shigeo Kawasaki , Dmitry Khangaluyan , Caroline Kilbourne , Kenzo Kinugasa , Shunji Kitamoto , Tetsu Kitayama , Takayoshi Kohmura , Motohide Kokubun , Tatsuro Kosaka , Taro Kotani , Katsuji Koyama , Aya Kubota , Hideyo Kunieda , Philippe Laurent , Francois Lebrun , Olivier Limousin , Michael Loewenstein , Knox Long , Grzegorz Madejski , Yoshitomo Maeda , Kazuo Makishima , Maxim Markevitch , Hironori Matsumoto , Kyoko Matsushita , Dan McCammon , Jon Miller , Shin Mineshige , Kenji Minesugi , Takuya Miyazawa , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Koji Mori , Hideyuki Mori , Koji Mukai , Hiroshi Murakami , Toshio Murakami , Richard Mushotzky , Yujin Nakagawa , Takao Nakagawa , Hiroshi Nakajima , Takeshi Nakamori , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Yoshiharu Namba , Masaharu Nomachi , Steve O' Dell , Hiroyuki Ogawa , Mina Ogawa , Keiji Ogi , Takaya Ohashi , Masanori Ohno , Masayuki Ohta , Takashi Okajima , Naomi Ota , Masanobu Ozaki , Frits Paerels , Stéphane Paltani , Arvind Parmer , Robert Petre , Martin Pohl , Scott Porter , Brian Ramsey , Christopher Reynolds , Shin-ichiro Sakai , Rita Sambruna , Goro Sato , Yoichi Sato , Peter Serlemitsos , Maki Shida , Takanobu Shimada , Keisuke Shinozaki , Peter Shirron , Randall Smith , Gary Sneiderman , Yang Soong , Lukasz Stawarz , Hiroyuki Sugita , Andrew Szymkowiak , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Yoh Takei , Toru Tamagawa , Takayuki Tamura , Keisuke Tamura , Takaaki Tanaka , Yasuo Tanaka , Yasuyuki Tanaka , Makoto Tashiro , Yuzuru Tawara , Yukikatsu Terada , Yuichi Terashima , Francesco Tombesi , Hiroshi Tomida , Miyako Tozuka , Yoko Tsuboi , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Takeshi Tsuru , Hiroyuki Uchida , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Hideki Uchiyama , Yoshihiro Ueda , Shinichiro Uno , Meg Urry , Shin Watanabe , Nicholas White , Takahiro Yamada , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Noriko Yamasaki , Makoto Yamauchi , Shigeo Yamauchi , Yoichi Yatsu , Daisuke Yonetoku , Atsumasa Yoshida

The Medium Energy X-ray telescope (ME) is one of the three main telescopes on board the Insight Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) astronomy satellite. ME contains 1728 pixels of Si-PIN detectors sensitive in 5-30 keV with a…

For experiments at the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) the Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector (AGIPD) is under development. The particular requirements for the detector are a high dynamic range of 0, 1 - to more than 10E4…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Schwandt , E. Fretwurst , R. Klanner , J. Zhang

e-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray space mission proposed for the fifth Medium-size mission (M5) of the European Space Agency. It is dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from ~0.15 MeV to 3 GeV with…

A 1M- and a 4M-pixel monolithic CMOS active pixel sensor with 9.5x9.5 micron^2 pixels have been developed for direct imaging in transmission electron microscopy as part of the TEAM project. We present the design and a full characterisation…

The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4-50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. F. Bloser , R. Andritschke , G. Kanbach , V. Schoenfelder , F. Schopper , A. Zoglauer

We describe a concept for a NASA SMEX Mission in which Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, developed at CERN, are adapted for use in X-ray astronomy. These detectors can be used to obtain moderately large detector area and…

We present a novel single-photon detector based on a vacuum tube incorporating a photocathode, a microchannel plate (MCP), and a Timepix4 CMOS ASIC functioning as a pixelated anode. Designed to handle photon rates up to 1 billion per second…

The Teledyne COSMOS-66 is a next-generation CMOS camera designed for astronomical imaging, featuring a large-format sensor ($8120 \times 8120$ pixels, each $10 \mu m$), high quantum efficiency, high frame rates, and a correlated…

In the context of the studies of the ATLAS High Luminosity LHC programme, radiation tolerant pixel detectors in CMOS technologies are investigated. To evaluate the effects of substrate resistivity on CMOS sensor performance, the H35DEMO…

We have developed CMOS imaging sensor (XRPIX) using SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) technology for the X-ray astronomical use. XRPIX(X-Ray soiPIXel) has advantage of a high time resolution, a high position resolution and an observation in a wide…

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

Purpose: CMOS pixel sensors have become extremely attractive for future high performance tracking devices. Initial R\&D work has been conducted for the vertex detector for the proposed Circular Electron Positron Collider that will allow…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 L. J. Chen , H. B. Zhu , X. C. Ai , M. Fu , R. Kiuchi , Y. Liu , Z. A. Liu , X. C. Lou , Y. P. Lu , Q. Ouyang , X. Shi , J. Tao , K. Wang , N. Wang , C. F. Yang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhou

This work presents the first measurements performed on the Timespot1 ASIC. As the second prototype developed for the TimeSPOT project, the ASIC features a 32x32 channels hybrid-pixel matrix. Targeted to space-time tracking applications in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-30 Lorenzo Piccolo , Sandro Cadeddu , Luca Frontini , Adriano Lai , Valentino Liberali , Angelo Rivetti , Alberto Stabile

The spatial resolution of the Micromegas prototype developed for the BabyIAXO experiment was evaluated using a low-energy X-ray beam at the SOLEIL synchrotron facility. BabyIAXO, currently under construction, aims to search for hypothetical…

In recent years, the performance of Scientifc Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors has been improved signifcantly. Compared with CCD sensors, sCMOS sensors have various advantages, making them potentially better devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qinyu Wu , Zhenqing Jia , Wenxin Wang , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Weimin Yuan