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31 August 2022 Calibration of the first detector flight models for the HERMES constellation and the SpIRIT mission
Riccardo Campana, Giulia Baroni, Giovanni Della Casa, Giuseppe Dilillo, Ezequiel J Marchesini, Francesco Ceraudo, Alejandro Guzmán, Paul Hedderman, Yuri Evangelista
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Abstract
HERMES (high energy rapid modular ensemble of satellites) is a space-borne mission based on a constellation of six 3U CubeSats flying in a low-Earth orbit, hosting new miniaturized instruments based on a hybrid silicon drift detector/GAGG:Ce scintillator photodetector system sensitive to x-rays and γ-rays. Moreover, the HERMES constellation will operate in conjunction with the Australian-Italian space industry responsive intelligent thermal (SpIRIT) 6U CubeSat, that will carry in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) an actively cooled HERMES detector system payload. In this paper we provide an overview of the ground calibrations of the first HERMES and SpIRIT flight detectors, outlining the calibration plan, detector performance and characterization.
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Riccardo Campana, Giulia Baroni, Giovanni Della Casa, Giuseppe Dilillo, Ezequiel J Marchesini, Francesco Ceraudo, Alejandro Guzmán, Paul Hedderman, and Yuri Evangelista "Calibration of the first detector flight models for the HERMES constellation and the SpIRIT mission", Proc. SPIE 12181, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 121815K (31 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629031
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KEYWORDS
Calibration

Astronomical detectors

Gamma-ray astronomy

X-ray astronomy

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