Proton irradiation of plastic scintillator bars for POLAR-2

S Mianowski, N De Angelis, K Brylew, J Hulsman… - Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
POLAR-2, a plastic scintillator based Compton polarimeter, is currently under development
and planned for a launch to the China Space Station in 2025. It is intended to shed a new …

[PDF][PDF] Development of the Next Generation Space-Based Compton Polarimeter and Energy Resolved Polarization Analysis of Gamma-ray Bursts Prompt Emission

N De Angelis - 2023 - inspirehep.net
As the most powerful events since the Big Bang, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) typically emit in
a few seconds the amount of energy that the Sun would deliver in its entire life. These …

POLAR-2, the next generation of GRB polarization detector

N Produit, M Kole, X Wu, N De Angelis, H Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The POLAR-2 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) Polarimetry mission is a follow-up to the successful
POLAR mission. POLAR collected six months of data in 2016-2017 on board the Tiangong-2 …

Radiation characterization of SiPMs for HERD PSD

Y Zhang, Y Liu, J Han, D Guo, Y Dong, M Gao… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have been used in several space-borne missions, and the
radiation effect as well as the performance degradation must be a concern during space …

Online Dark Count Rate Measurements in 150 nm CMOS SPADs Exposed to Low Neutron Fluxes

L Ratti, P Brogi, G Collazuol… - … on Nuclear Science, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Arrays of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) fabricated in a 150 nm CMOS
technology have been exposed to neutrons up to fluences of about MeV neutron equivalent …

Characterization of more than three years of in-orbit radiation damage of SiPMs on GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2 CubeSats

J Ripa, M Dafcikova, P Kosik, F Münz, M Ohno… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
It is well known that silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are prone to radiation damage. With the
increasing popularity of SiPMs among new spaceborne missions, especially on CubeSats, it …

Design and Performance of a Universal SiPM Readout System for X-and Gamma-Ray Missions

M Kole, N De Angelis, N Produit, F Cadoux… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
The advent of both multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics over the last decade has
seen a large interest in the development of small-scale, cheap, and robust gamma-ray …

Response of the first POLAR-2 Prototype to Polarized Beams

M Kole, N de Angelis, A Bacelj, F Cadoux… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
POLAR-2 is a dedicated gamma-ray polarimeter currently foreseen to be launched towards
the China Space Station around 2027. The design of the detector is based on the legacy of …

A Silicon-Photo-Multiplier-Based Camera for the Terzina Telescope on Board the Neutrinos and Seismic Electromagnetic Signals Space Mission

L Burmistrov - Instruments, 2024 - mdpi.com
NUSES is a pathfinder satellite project hosting two detectors: Ziré and Terzina. Ziré focuses
on the study of protons and electrons below 250 MeV and MeV gamma rays. Terzina is …

A Characterization Method for TID vs Temperature Effects on Microelectronic Circuits

M Rizzo, M Muschitiello, V Gupta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past years, the space industry has witnessed a steady increase in the amount of
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components deployed in spacecrafts. The use of COTS …