The scientific payload on-board the HERMES-TP and HERMES-SP CubeSat missions

Evangelista, Y.; Fiore, F.; Fuschino, F.; Campana, R.; Ceraudo, Francesco; Demenev, Evgeny; Guzmán, A.; Labanti, C.; Rosa, G. La; Fiorini, M.; Gandola, M.; Grassi, M.; Mele, F.; Morgante, G.; Nogara, P.; Piazzolla, Raffaele; Caballero, S. Pliego; Rashevskaya, I.; Russo, F.; Sciarrone, Giulia; Sottile, G.; Milankovich, D.; Pál, András; Ambrosino, Filippo; Auricchio, N.; Barbera, Marco; Bellutti, P.; Bertuccio, G.; Borghi, G.; Cao, J.; Chen, T.; Dilillo, Giuseppe; Feroci, M.; Ficorella, F.; Cicero, Ugo Lo; Malcovati, P.; Morbidini, Alfredo; Pauletta, G.; Picciotto, Antonino; Rachevski, A.; Santangelo, A.; Tenzer, C.; Vacchi, A.; Wang, L.; Xu, Yupeng; Zampa, G.; Zampa, N.; Zorzi, N.; Burderi, L.; Lavagna, Michèle; Bertacin, Roberto; Lunghi, Paolo; Monge, Ángel; Negri, B.; Pirrotta, Simone; Puccetti, S.; Sanna, A.; Amarilli, Fabrizio; Amelino-Camelia, G.; Bechini, Michele; Citossi, Marco; Colagrossi, Andrea; Curzel, Serena; Casa, Giovanni Della; Cinelli, Marco; Santo, M. Del; Salvo, T. Di; Feruglio, C.; Ferrandi, Fabrizio; Fiorito, Michele; Gačnik, Dejan; Galgóczi, Gábor; Gambino, A. F.; Ghirlanda, G.; Gomboc, A.; Karlica, M.; Efremov, Pavel; Kostić, U.; Clerici, Aurora; Fernández, Baltasar; Maselli, A.; Nava, Lara; Ohno, M.; Ottolina, Daniele; Pasquale, Andrea; Perri, M.; Piccinin, Margherita; Prinetto, Jacopo; Riggio, A.; Řípa, J.; Papitto, A.; Piranomonte, S.; Scala, F.; Selčan, David; Silvestrini, Stefano; Rotovnik, Tomaz; Virgilli, Enrico; Troisi, Ivan; Werner, Norbert; Zanotti, Giovanni; Anitra, A.; Manca, A

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“…The HERMES-TP/SP payload is described in detail in [24,25,26,28,29,30]. Here we recall the main concept, heritage and synergies.…”

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“…Above this threshold, the low energy threshold increases toward high energies and the electronics becomes less and less able to follow the rate of noise events generated by the detector. We estimated the cumulative dose received by the detectors as a function of time and thus the increment in the leakage current level reached by the detectors in different orbits finding that orbits with height between 500km and 600km and inclination <20° satisfy both the requirements in terms of mission lifetime (2 years), high efficiency and low background, see [25] for details.…”

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“…The first requirement implies a 50-300 keV collecting area of the single detector ³50cm 2 and background £1.5 counts/cm 2 /s [24,25,26]. The second requirement implies a large FoV for each detector (a few steradians), and the possibility to co-align the FoVs seen at every given time by at least three detectors.…”

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

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HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder) is a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative X-ray detectors, characterized by a large energy band and excellent temporal resolution, and thus optimized for the monitoring of Cosmic High Energy transients such as Gamma Ray Bursts and the electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events, and for the determination of their positions. The projects are funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and by the Italian Space Agency, and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 821896. HERMES-TP/SP is an in-orbit demonstration, that should be tested starting from 2022. It is intrinsically a modular experiment that can be naturally expanded to provide a global, sensitive all sky monitor for high-energy transients.

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“…The HERMES-TP/SP payload is described in detail in [24,25,26,28,29,30]. Here we recall the main concept, heritage and synergies.…”

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

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“…Other agencies are in the process of developing CubeSats with GRB detection and localisation capabilities e.g. BurstCube [24], MoonBEAM [27], HERMES [28][29][30][31], CAMELOT [32] and GRID [33]. GRBAlpha [34] is an in-orbit demonstration for CAMELOT which has recently been launched [35].…”

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A compact instrument for gamma-ray burst detection on a CubeSat platform I

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The Educational Irish Research Satellite 1 (EIRSAT-1) is a 2U CubeSat being developed under ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme. The project has many aspects, which are primarily educational, but also include space qualification of new detector technologies for gamma-ray astronomy and the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The Gamma-ray Module (GMOD), the main mission payload, is a small gamma-ray spectrometer comprising a 25 mm × 25 mm × 40 mm cerium bromide scintillator coupled to an array of 16 silicon photomultipliers. The readout is provided by IDE3380 (SIPHRA), a low-power and radiation tolerant readout ASIC. GMOD will detect gamma-rays and measure their energies in a range from tens of keV to a few MeV. Monte Carlo simulations were performed using the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy Library to evaluate GMOD’s capability for the detection of GRBs in low Earth orbit. The simulations used a detailed mass model of the full spacecraft derived from a very high-fidelity 3D CAD model. The sky-average effective area of GMOD on board EIRSAT-1 was found to be 10 cm2 at 120 keV. The instrument is expected to detect between 11 and 14 GRBs, at a significance greater than 10σ (and up to 32 at 5σ), during a nominal one-year mission. The shape of the scintillator in GMOD results in omni-directional sensitivity which allows for a nearly all-sky field of view.

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“…A more extensive description of the payload and of the present development status is given in other proceedings in this volume. 2,3 Since the nanosatellites will be launched as secondary payloads in a low-Earth orbit, they are subject to a relatively large amount of high-energy radiation fluxes (mostly primary, secondary and trapped charged particles, and diffuse photon backgrounds), which are the main sources of the on-orbit scientific background. In this paper the results of Monte Carlo simulations of the present design of the HERMES payload in this environment are shown, discussing the performance and response of the instrument.…”

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The HERMES-TP/SP background and response simulations

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HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) is an innovative mission aiming to observe transient high-energy events such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) through a constellation of CubeSats hosting a broadband X and gamma-ray detector. The detector is based on a solid-state Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) coupled to a scintillator crystal, and is sensitive in the 2 keV to 2 MeV band. An accurate evaluation of the foreseen in-orbit instrumental background is essential to assess the scientific performance of the experiment. An outline of the Monte Carlo simulations of the HERMES payload will be provided, describing the various contributions on the total background and the optimization strategies followed in the instrument design. Moreover, the simulations were used in order to derive the effective area and response matrices of the instrument, also as a function of the source location with respect to the detector frame of reference.

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The scientific payload on-board the HERMES-TP and HERMES-SP CubeSat missions

Cited by 28 publications

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The HERMES-technologic and scientific pathfinder

The HERMES-technologic and scientific pathfinder

A compact instrument for gamma-ray burst detection on a CubeSat platform I

The HERMES-TP/SP background and response simulations

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