Paper 13093-246
Paper 13093-246
CANCELED: Planetary HERMES: towards a hybrid high-energy detector for planetary surface spectroscopy and navigation
19 June 2024 • 17:30 - 19:00 Japan Standard Time | Room G5, North - 1F
Abstract
X-ray and gamma/ray spectroscopy can be used to assess the composition of planetary surfaces, which is a key ingredient for both studying the body origin and evolution and prospecting for its resources. The first is the goal of the ASI CubeSat mission TASTE, to visit the Mars moon Deimos, which hosts an X-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer derived from the instrument developed in the framework of the HERMES Pathfinder project for detection and localization of cosmic high energy transients. The unrivalled wide band from a few keV to several MeV and temporal resolution of a fraction of ms, the moderate energy resolution of 5%, lightweight and small volume (1.6 kg, 1U) make this instrument ideal for CubeSat and small lander applications for near Earth asteroid research and prospecting. During the journey to the target it can provide assistance for navigation using X-ray pulsars, thanks to its exquisite temporal resolution and good sensitivity.
Presenter
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy)
ORCID: 0000-0002-4031-4157
Currently Director of INAF – OATrieste, Italy.
I was Director of INAF – OARoma from 2012 to 2018, member of ESA AWG and FTAP from 2011 to 2013, member of INAF Scientific Council from 2005 to 2007.
In 1998 I was awarded with the Bruno Rossi Prize of the HED of the AAS to the BeppoSAX team for the discovery of the Gamma Ray Bursts afterglows in the X-ray band.
I am the Scientific Coordinator of the 2020-SPACE HERMES-Scientific Pathfinder project, and ASI project HERMES-Technologic Pathfinder. I am PI of the ESA OSIP project CME Catcher Carousel: CUBE, WP leader H2020-INFRAIA AHEAD2020 project, member of the ATHENA Science Team.
I was Science coordinator for ESA M3 proposal New Hard X-ray Mission (NHXM), Simbol-X deputy lead scientist, Senior scientist at the BeppoSAX Science Data Center
I have co-authored since 1986 > 400 publications on international peer reviewed professional journals which have produced nearly 25.000 citations, H index=81.