Conveners
Applications in Astro-Particle Physics
- David Hall
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the major global observatory for gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. It will consist of two arrays of telescopes of different sizes, one for each hemisphere, and will be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. The Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) are a crucial component of the...
The Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) is an important performance
metric for all position sensitive pixelated imaging detectors. Many
methods of determining MTF experimentally in the optical wavelength
region have been presented in the literature over the years, and
generally involve projection of a known test pattern of some kind. Laser
speckle MTF measurements are of interest for small...
The High Energy Particle Detector (HEPD-02) is one of the scientific payloads onboard the second China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-02), one of a serie of Chinese-Italian space missions dedicated to monitoring of the near-Earth environment and to study the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling mechanisms.
The launch of CSES-02 is foreseen in the first half of 2024.
HEPD-02 is...
CIS221-X is a prototype CMOS image sensor, optimised for soft X-ray astronomy and developed for the proposed ESA THESEUS mission. The sensor features 40 $\mu$m pixels built on a 35 $\mu$m thick, high-resistivity epitaxial silicon that is fully depleted by reverse substrate bias. A comprehensive electro-optical characterisation of CIS221-X has been completed. When cooled to -40 °C, the image...
