no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Riccardo Campana, Fabio Fuschino, Claudio Labanti, Sandro Mereghetti, Enrico Virgilli, Valentina Fioretti, Mauro Orlandini, John B. Stephen, Lorenzo Amati
The response of the X and Gamma Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) instrument onboard the Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) mission, selected by ESA for an assessment phase in the framework of the Cosmic Vision M5 launch opportunity, has been extensively modeled with a Monte Carlo Geant-4 based software.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Simone Lotti, Matteo D'Andrea, Silvano Molendi, Claudio Macculi, Gabriele Minervini, Valentina Fioretti, Monica Laurenza, Christian Jacquey, Luigi Piro
We aim at characterizing the particle-induced background of the Athena microcalorimeter, in both its low (Soft Protons) and high (GCR) energy induced components, to assess the instrument capability to characterize background dominated sources such as the outskirts of clusters of galaxies.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
