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The scientific payload on-board the HERMES-TP and HERMES-SP CubeSat missions
- Source :
- Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- 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.<br />Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures. Proceedings of SPIE "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation" 2020
- Subjects :
- Computer science
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
FOS: Physical sciences
Field of view
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods
Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica
0103 physical sciences
CubeSat
Transient (computer programming)
Aerospace engineering
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Constellation
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
010308 nuclear & particles physics
business.industry
Gravitational wave
Payload
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Steradian
Satellite
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
business
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Subjects
Details
- ISBN :
- 978-1-5106-3675-0
978-1-5106-3676-7 - ISBNs :
- 9781510636750 and 9781510636767
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....236fc36b7039bc3d87c217e8403b7300
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561018