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i-Astro

Space Instrumentation for Astrophysics


// Radiation environment studies and applications for space missions

Ambientes de radiação e aplicações para missões espaciais

i-Astro Group is developing its research in the framework of ESA, NASA and EU science space mission activities in the X- and gamma-ray astrophysics domains. The group is part of NASA All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) mission proposal consortium and of Activities in the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD2020: https://ahead.iaps.inaf.it/) EU project consortium. Our group is contributing to the development of detection plane instruments based in CdTe, CZT, CsI, Si and in gas filled detectors with spectroscopic, imaging and polarimetric capabilities. These missions will address the new multi-messenger astrophysics domain, where gravitational waves’ observation in ground facilities, such as LIGO-Virgo, coordinated with simultaneous gamma-ray transients’ observations performed in such gamma-ray space missions may provide useful constraints on the gravitational wave source localization. Polarimetry in high-energy astrophysics has known very few developments, therefore the referred missions polarimetric capabilities hold a great potential to open a new scientific observational window.

As examples of recent activities, in the framework of AHEAD we simulated the instrument mass model performances for e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO missions. Polarimetric measurements with a double layer CdTe prototype under a polarized beam were performed at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) and at LARIX (LARge Italian X-ray facility) facility at the University of Ferrara. We simulated the potential polarimetric performances of different noble gases, in the framework of the development of the main instrument of the IXPE mission. CdTe radiation hardness testing for Space Instrumentation were also carried on, in order to characterize the effects of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) proton radiation environment on CdTe based instruments.

Outreach Stratospheric Spectropolarimeter Gamma-X balloon experiment was launched the September 4th, 2018 in NASA HASP (High Altitude Student Platform) facilities at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, USA. i-Astro is also organising the How to be an Astronaut Summer School for secondary school students and the Portugal Space Summer School for university students.

 

// Research Area
Física Experimental de Partículas com aceleradores
Contacts
Group Leader:  
Rui Curado Silva

rcsilva@coimbra.lip.pt


 

  • Evaluation of effective dose for gamma-rays of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes in aviation: spectral- and atmosphere-effects
  • Author(s):  J.M. Maia, R.M. Curado da Silva, Joana Mingacho
  • Submission:  , Acceptance:  , Publication:  2023-11-03
  • Reference:  Radiation Physics and Chemistry 215 (2024) 111332  

  • All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept
  • Author(s):  Regina Caputo, Marco Ajello, Carolyn A. Kierans, Jeremy S. Perkins, Judith L. Racusin, Luca Baldini, Matthew G. Baring, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Eric Burns, Nicholas Cannady, Eric Charles, Rui M. Curado da Silva, Ke Fang, Henrike Fleischhack, Chris Fryer, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. Eric Grove, Dieter Hartmann, Eric J. Howell, Manoj Jadhav, Christopher M. Karwin, Daniel Kocevski, Naoko Kurahashi, Luca Latronico, Tiffany R. Lewis, Richard Leys, Amy Lien, Lea Marcotulli, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Kohta Murase, Michela Negro, Lucas Parker, Bernard Phlips, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Soebur Razzaque, Peter S. Shawhan, Yong Sheng, Tom A. Shutt, Daniel Shy, Clio Sleator, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Donggeun Tak, Hiro Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Tonia M. Venters, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Richard S. Woolf, Eric A. Wulf, Haocheng Zhang, Andreas Zoglauer
  • Submission:  , Acceptance:  , Publication:  2022-10-28
  • Reference:  Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 044003 (October 2022).   View publication

  • AMEGO-X Mission Overview
  • Author(s):  Caputo, Regina ; Perkins, Jeremy ; Racusin, Judith ; Ajello, Marco ; Kierans, Carolyn ; Fleischhack, Henrike ; Negro, Michela ; Zhang, Haocheng ; Venters, Tonia ; Cannady, Nicholas ; Bissaldi, Elisabetta ; Karwin, Christopher ; Lewis, Tiffany ; Sheng, Yong ; Lien, Amy ; Steinhebel, Amanda ; Shawhan, Peter ; Baring, Matthew ; Martinez-Castellanos, Israel ; Wadiasingh, Zorawar search by orcid ; Woolf, Richard ; Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda ; Kocevski, Daniel ; Razzaque, Soebur ; Tak, Donggeun ; Suda, Yusuke ; Zoglauer, Andreas ; Howell, Eric ; Mazziotta, Mario Nicola ; Curado da Silva, Rui ; Valverde, Janeth ; Wulf, Eric ; Metcalfe, Jessica ; McEnery, Julie ; Kurahashi Neilson, Naoko
  • Submission:  , Acceptance:  , Publication:  2022-04-01
  • Reference:  AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting #19, id. 404.03. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 54, No. 3   View publication

  • Polarimetry With a Multilayer CdTe Prototype for Soft Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
  • Author(s):  M. Moita, R. M. Curado da Silva, J. M. Maia, E. Caroli, E. Virgilli, N. Auricchio, J. B. Stephen, F. Frontera, S. del Sordo
  • Submission:  2021-11-01, Acceptance:  2021-11-01, Publication:  2021-11-01
  • Reference:  IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 68 (2021) 2655-2660  

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  • ANTS
  •  Anger camera-type detector simulation and experimental data processing tools.
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Alessandro de Angelis
Lisboa
Researcher

Alexandra Roque
Coimbra
Master student

Alexandre Fonseca Trindade
Coimbra
Technician

André Neves
Coimbra
Master student

Cristiana Francisco
Coimbra
PhD student

Gabriel Falcão
Coimbra
Collaborator

Joana da Orada
Coimbra
Master student

Jorge Maia
Coimbra
Researcher

José Sousa
Coimbra
Master student

Luís Amoreira
Coimbra
Researcher

Mariana Letra
Coimbra
Master student

Mário Cainé
Coimbra
Master student

Miguel Moita
Coimbra
Researcher

Miriam Abreu Neves
Coimbra
Undergraduate student

Pedro Póvoa
Coimbra
Master student

Rui Curado Silva
Coimbra
Researcher





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