The scientific payload on-board the HERMES-TP and HERMES-SP CubeSat missions
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Rok publikování | 2021 |
Druh | Článek ve sborníku |
Konference | Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114441T |
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2561018 |
Klíčová slova | High Energy Astrophysics; HERMES; CubeSat; Payload; Space 4.0; Silicon Drift Detectors; GAGG; ASIC |
Popis | 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 temporal emission of bright high-energy transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Fast transient localization, in a field of view of several steradians and with arcmin-level accuracy, is gained by comparing time delays among the same event detection epochs occurred on at least 3 nano-satellites. With a launch date in 2022, HERMES transient monitoring represents a keystone capability to complement the next generation of gravitational wave experiments. In this paper we will illustrate the HERMES payload design, highlighting the technical solutions adopted to allow a wide-energy-band and sensitive X-ray and gamma-ray detector to be accommodated in a Cubesat 1U volume together with its complete control electronics and data handling system. |
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