Conveners
II.b Astro & Space: Session 1
- jan-willem den Herder (SRON)
II.b Astro & Space: Session 2
- Arne Rau (MPE)
II.b Astro & Space: Session 3
- Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)
Philippe Gros
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
6/4/14, 4:20 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
Observation of high-energy sources requires gamma-ray telescopes aboard balloons or satellites to study thermal and non thermal phenomena (black holes, neutron stars, active galactic nuclei, supernovae, supernova remnants, and gamma-ray bursts). In recent years, R&D has been mainly active to improve the sensitivity required for polarimetry. In this context, a concept of a Time Projection...
Toru Tanimori
(Kyoto University)
6/4/14, 4:40 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
For next MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we developed Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) consisting of a Time projection Chamber and pixel scintillators. By measuring the track of an electron, ETCC measures the direction of gamma-rays as a small arc, which provides a good background rejection using the kinematical test and energy loss rate of the track (particle identification), and clear...
Quirin Weitzel
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg)
6/4/14, 5:00 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based instrument for the detection of cosmic gamma-rays with energies from about 20 GeV up to several hundred TeV. It is envisaged to be comprised of large-, medium- and small-sized telescopes (23m, 10-12m and 4m mirror aperture, respectively). Within the scope of the FlashCam project, a novel camera for the medium-sized...
Prof.
Justin Vandenbroucke
(UW Madison)
6/4/14, 5:20 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the particle nature of dark matter. We have designed an innovative Schwarzschild-Couder telescope which uses two mirrors to achieve excellent optical performance...
Mr
Ian G. Wisher
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
6/4/14, 5:40 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located on the Sierra Negra plateau (4100m a.s.l.) in central Mexico, is currently under construction and scheduled for completion at the end of summer 2014. The detector is comprised of tightly-packed optically-isolated water tanks, each 5 m tall and 7.3 m in diameter, which are instrumented with 4 Hamamatsu photomultiplier tubes. The...
Salleh Ahmad
(Weeroc SAS)
6/4/14, 6:00 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
Citiroc is a 32-channel front-end ASIC designed to readout silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM).
Citiroc allows triggering down to 1/3 pe and provides the charge measurement with a good noise rejection. Moreover, Citiroc outputs the 32-channel triggers with a high accuracy (100 ps).
An adjustment of the SiPM high-voltage is possible using a channel-by-channel DAC connected to the ASIC inputs....
Dr
Jan-Willem den Herder
(SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
6/5/14, 11:00 AM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
The hot and energetic Universe has been selected by ESA as its next large
class mission with a scheduled launch date in 2028. This mission will have a large
collecting area (2 m2) with focussing optics and in the focal plane two interchangeable
instruments: a Si-based DEPFET detector which is optimised for its field of view
and its count rate capability. The second instrument is a...
Mr
Ayaki Takeda
(SOKENDAI/KEK)
6/5/14, 11:20 AM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
We have been developing a monolithic active pixel sensor with the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology for use in future X-ray astronomical satellite mission. Our objective is to replace the X-ray Charge Coupled Device, which is the standard detector in the field, by offering high coincidence time resolution (∼ 50 ns), superior hit-position readout time (∼ 10 μs), and wider bandpass (0.3...
Hideaki Matsumura
(Kyoto University)
6/5/14, 11:40 AM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs, monolithic active pixel sensors based on the Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology for next-generation X-ray astronomy satellites. Their high time resolution (~micro sec) and event trigger output function enable us to reduce non-X-ray background by two orders of magnitude at 20 keV, compared with X-ray CCDs widely used in current X-ray astronomy...
Mr
Merlin Kole
(KTH - Royal Institute of Technology)
6/5/14, 12:00 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
PoGOLite is a balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter. It determines polarisation by measuring the azimuthal angular distribution of Compton scattered photons in a plastic scintillator array. The use of an all plastic target yields a relatively large but low mass detection area. The dominant source of background for the polarisation measurements has been shown through Geant4 simulations to...
Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
6/5/14, 12:20 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
After almost 35 years since their suggestion as a good solution to the strong CP-problem, axions remain one of the viable candidates for the Dark Matter, although still eluding detection. Most of the methods for their detection are based on their coupling to photons, one of the most promising ones being the helioscope technique.
We will report on the current status of the CERN Axion Solar...
Valentina Scotti
6/6/14, 11:00 AM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on-board the Japanese Experiment Module), the near-UV telescope proposed to be installed on board the International Space Station (ISS) before the end of this decade. The main objective of this pathfinder mission is to perform a full scale end-to-end test of all the key technologies and instrumentation of...
Dr
Angelo Cruciani
(University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
6/6/14, 11:20 AM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
Millimetre-wave astronomical observations have an enormous discovery potential in the study of the earliest stages of the evolution of the universe, clusters of galaxies, high redshift objects, and star formation regions. One of the challenges today is to perform observations with the finest angular resolution, in order to accurately investigate the nature of these astrophysical sources....
clarence chang
(Argonne National Lab)
6/6/14, 11:40 AM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
Advances in CMB instrumentation have opened a new era for studying
fundamental physics through precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB). CMB measurements are critical for our understanding of
cosmology and provides a unique probe of Dark Energy, the Cosmic Neutrino
Background, and the physics of inflation. The South Pole Telescope (SPT)
collaboration has been...
Dr
Yasuto Hori
(KEK)
6/6/14, 12:00 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
POLARBEAR-2 (PB-2) is a new receiver system which will be mounted on the Simons Array telescope in early 2015
for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements at the Atacama desert in Chile.
The main science goal is to detect or set an upper limit of the inflationary gravitational wave B-mode.
Another important topic is to probe the large scale structure in the universe and...
Mr
Klaus Weidenhaupt
(RWTH Aachen University)
6/6/14, 12:20 PM
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Oral
The Pierre Auger Observatory detects ultra-high energy cosmic rays by measuring extensive air showers induced in the earth's atmosphere. Besides established detection techniques using a 3000 km2 array of particle detectors sampling shower particles at ground level, and detecting fluorescence light emitted during the shower development with telescopes, the Observatory explores the potential of...
