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.
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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.
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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.
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no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Sandro Mereghetti, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Ruben Salvaterra, Riccardo Campana, Claudio Labanti, Paul H. Connell, Ruben Farinelli, Filippo Frontera, Fabio Fuschino, Jose L. Gasent-Blesa, Cristiano Guidorzi, Michele Lissoni, Michela Rigoselli, John B. Stephen, Lorenzo Amati
We describe the optimization process that led to the current design of the XGIS, based on two identical units with partially overlapping fields of view, and discuss the expected performance of the instrument.
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no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • José Luis Gasent-Blesa, Víctor Reglero, Paul Connell, Benjamín Pinazo-Herrero, Javier Navarro-González, Pedro Rodríguez-Martínez, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, María Dolores Caballero-García, Lorenzo Amati, Claudio Labanti, Sandro Mereghetti, Filippo Frontera, Riccardo Campana, Mauro Orlandini, John Stephen, Luca Terenzi, Federico Evangelisti, Stefano Squerzanti, Michele Melchiorri, Fabio Fuschino, Adriano De Rosa, Gianluca Morgante
This contribution is implemented by the XGIS Imaging System, based on that technique.
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.
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