IIHE invited seminar: 28th of April, prof. Adriano di Giovanni (GSSI) "A CubeSat spacecraft for the detection of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes"
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IIHE invited seminar: The era of Low cost - High Risk space missions: a CubeSat spacecraft for the detection of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
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byProf.Adriano Di Giovanni(GSSI)
//Friday 28 Apr 2023, 15:00→16:30Europe/Brussels //G/0-G.0.20 - Neutrino Room (Building G) Description
Serendipitously discovered by the BATSE mission in the nineties, Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) represent the most intense and energetic natural emission of gamma rays from our planet. TGFs consist of sub-millisecond bursts of gamma rays (energy up to one hundred MeV) generated during powerful thunderstorms by lightenings and are in general companions of several other counterparts (electron beams, neutrons, radio waves). The ideal observatory for TGF is therefore a fast detector, possibly with spectral abilities and orbiting around Earth in LEO (Low Earth Orbit). To date, the benchmark observatory is ASIM, an instrument flying onboard the International Space Station (ISS), however TGF science is being addressed by new instruments, few of them orbiting in free flight around Earth: among these, LIGHT-1, a 3U Cubesat mission launched in December 21st, 2021 and deployed from the ISS on February 3rd, 2022. The LIGHT-1 payload consists of two similar instruments conceived to effectively detect TGFs at few hundred nanoseconds timescale. The detection unit is composed of a scintillating crystal organised in four optically independent channels, read out by as many photosensors. The detection unit is surrounded by a segmented plastic scintillator layer that acts as an anti coincidence VETO for charged particles. The customised electronics embeds power supplies and detector readout, signal processing, detector controls and act as interface with the bus of the spacecraft. LIGHT-1 makes the use of two different scintillating crystals, namely low background Cerium Bromide and Lanthanum Bromo Chloride, and two different photo sensing technologies based on PhotoMultiplier Tubes (R11265-200 manufactured by Hamamatsu) and Silicon Photomultipliers (ASD-NUV1C-P manufactured by Advansid and S13361-6050AE-04 manufactured by Hamamatsu). Payload performance and detailed description will be provided, along the results of commissioning and preliminary flight data.
Organised by
Ioana Maris and Steven Lowette
Dear all,
This is a kind reminder of today's seminar at 15 o'clock in the*Sacton room* at IIHE. Your are also warmly invited to join the "beer with the speaker" at 17:00 in CoHop microbrewery.
All the best, Ioana
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Seminars-iihe] IIHE invited seminar: 28th of April, prof. Adriano di Giovanni (GSSI) "A CubeSat spacecraft for the detection of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes" Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:51:38 +0000 From: MARIS Ioana Codrina ioana.maris@ulb.be To: seminars-iihe@listserv.vub.be seminars-iihe@listserv.vub.be, Adriano Di Giovanni adriano.digiovanni@gssi.it
Invited Seminars https://indico.iihe.ac.be/category/6/
IIHE invited seminar: The era of Low cost - High Risk space missions: a CubeSat spacecraft for the detection of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
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byProf.Adriano Di Giovanni(GSSI)
//Friday 28 Apr 2023, 15:00→16:30Europe/Brussels //G/0-G.0.20 - Neutrino Room (Building G) Description
Serendipitously discovered by the BATSE mission in the nineties, Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) represent the most intense and energetic natural emission of gamma rays from our planet. TGFs consist of sub-millisecond bursts of gamma rays (energy up to one hundred MeV) generated during powerful thunderstorms by lightenings and are in general companions of several other counterparts (electron beams, neutrons, radio waves). The ideal observatory for TGF is therefore a fast detector, possibly with spectral abilities and orbiting around Earth in LEO (Low Earth Orbit). To date, the benchmark observatory is ASIM, an instrument flying onboard the International Space Station (ISS), however TGF science is being addressed by new instruments, few of them orbiting in free flight around Earth: among these, LIGHT-1, a 3U Cubesat mission launched in December 21st, 2021 and deployed from the ISS on February 3rd, 2022. The LIGHT-1 payload consists of two similar instruments conceived to effectively detect TGFs at few hundred nanoseconds timescale. The detection unit is composed of a scintillating crystal organised in four optically independent channels, read out by as many photosensors. The detection unit is surrounded by a segmented plastic scintillator layer that acts as an anti coincidence VETO for charged particles. The customised electronics embeds power supplies and detector readout, signal processing, detector controls and act as interface with the bus of the spacecraft. LIGHT-1 makes the use of two different scintillating crystals, namely low background Cerium Bromide and Lanthanum Bromo Chloride, and two different photo sensing technologies based on PhotoMultiplier Tubes (R11265-200 manufactured by Hamamatsu) and Silicon Photomultipliers (ASD-NUV1C-P manufactured by Advansid and S13361-6050AE-04 manufactured by Hamamatsu). Payload performance and detailed description will be provided, along the results of commissioning and preliminary flight data.
Organised by
Ioana Maris and Steven Lowette
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