no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Lorenzo Amati, Paul T. O'Brien, Diego Götz, Enrico Bozzo, Andrea Santangelo
THESEUS is a space mission concept, currently under Phase A study by ESA as candidate M5 mission, aiming at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Claudio Labanti, Lorenzo Amati, Filippo Frontera, Sandro Mereghetti, José Luis Gasent-Blesa, Christoph Tenzer, Piotr Orleanski, Irfan Kuvvetli, Riccardo Campana, Fabio Fuschino, Luca Terenzi, Enrico Virgilli, Gianluca Morgante, Mauro Orlandini, Reginald C. Butler, John B. Stephen, Natalia Auricchio, Adriano De Rosa, Vanni Da Ronco, Federico Evangelisti, Michele Melchiorri, Stefano Squerzanti, Mauro Fiorini, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Filippo Mele, Massimo Gandola, Piero Malcovati, Marco Grassi, Pierluigi Bellutti, Giacomo Borghi, Francesco Ficorella, Antonino Picciotto, Vittorio Zanini, Nicola Zorzi, Evgeny Demenev, Irina Rashevskaya, Alexander Rachevski, Gianluigi Zampa, Andrea Vacchi, Nicola Zampa, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Giovanni La Rosa, Giuseppe Sottile, Angela Volpe, Marek Winkler, Victor Reglero, Paul H. Connell, Benjamin Pinazo-Herrero, Javier Navarro-González, Pedro Rodríguez-Martínez, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Andrea Santangelo, Paul Hedderman, Paolo Lorenzi, Paolo Sarra, Søren M. Pedersen, Denis Tcherniak, Cristiano Guidorzi, Piero Rosati, Alessio Trois, Raffaele Piazzolla
THESEUS is one of the three missions selected by ESA as fifth medium class mission (M5) candidates in its Cosmic Vision science program, currently under assessment in a phase A study with a planned launch date in 2032.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Fabio Fuschino, Riccardo Campana, Claudio Labanti, Lorenzo Amati, Enrico Virgilli, Luca Terenzi, Pierluigi Bellutti, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Giacomo Borghi, Francesco Ficorella, Massimo Gandola, Marco Grassi, Giovanni La Rosa, Paolo Lorenzi, Piero Malcovati, Filippo Mele, Piotr Orleański, Antonino Picciotto, Alexandre Rachevski, Irina Rashevskaya, Andrea Santangelo, Paolo Sarra, Giuseppe Sottile, Christoph Tenzer, Andrea Vacchi, Zampa Gianluigi, Nicola Zampa, Nicola Zorzi, Paul Hedderman, M. Winkler, Alessandro Gemelli, Ifran Kuvvetli, Søren Møller Pedersen, Denis Tcherniak, Lucas Christoffer Bune Jensen
In this paper the design of the XGIS detection plane is reviewed, outlining the strategic choices in terms of modularity and redundancy of the system.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2021 • Victor Doroshenko, Andrea Santangelo, Sergey Tsygankov, Long Ji
The soft gamma-ray repeater candidate SGR 0755$-$2933 was discovered in 2016 by Swift/BAT, which detected a short ($\sim$30 ms) powerful burst typical of magnetars.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 19 Aug 2020 • Charles Thorpe-Morgan, Denys Malyshev, Andrea Santangelo, Josef Jochum, Barbara Jäger, Manami Sasaki, Sara Saeedi
Through a series of simulated observations, we investigate the capability of the instruments aboard the forthcoming THESEUS mission for the detection of a characteristic signal from decaying dark matter (DM) in the keV-MeV energy range.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics