Conveners
Astrophysics and other Pixel Applications
- Hans-Gunther Moser (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
Paul O'Connor
(Department of Physics)
05/09/2014, 09:10
ORAL
Over the next 5 years, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collaboration will construct a new 8m-class ground-based telescope and 3 Gpixel camera to perform an all-sky survey in the optical and near IR. Science themes of LSST include fundamental cosmology (testing the lambda-CDM paradigm and search for new physics), galactic astronomy (assembly history of the Milky Way), Solar System astronomy...
Oliver Grimm
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
05/09/2014, 09:40
ORAL
The Spectrometer/Telescope Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a remote sensing instrument developed to perform X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of solar flares. The imaging is realized by a Fourier-imaging technique using tungsten grid collimators in front of CdTe pixel detectors.
The detectors are used for an X-ray spectrometer unit based on the IDeF-X HD ASIC front-end to perform high resolution...
Javier Tiffenberg
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
05/09/2014, 10:10
ORAL
The DAMIC experiment uses high resistivity, fully depleted CCD's as
detectors to search for dark matter particles. The low electronic
readout noise (RMS ~2 electrons) of the CCD's make possible to reach a
detection threshold below 50 eV of deposited energy by nuclear recoils
in the silicon target. Owing to these characteristics, DAMIC has an
unrivaled sensitivity to WIMPs with masses...
Emily Macuk
(Fermilab)
05/09/2014, 11:00
ORAL
Dark Energy, the driving force for the accelerated expansion of the Universe, has
become one of the largest mysteries in our current understanding of Nature. There
are several ongoing, and planned astronomical projects to map large scale structure and geometry of the Universe to investigate this. During this talk we will present the newly developed Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors,...
