The X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) for THESEUS and other mission opportunities

Lorenzo Amati; Claudio Labanti; Sandro Mereghetti; Filippo Frontera; Riccardo Campana; Natalia Auricchio; Giuseppe Baldazzi; Pierluigi Bellutti; Giuseppe Bertuccio; Marica Branchesi; Reginald C. Butler; Maria D. Caballero-Garcia; Anna E. Camisasca; Alberto J. Castro-Tirado; Leo Cavazzini; Riccardo Ciolfi; Adriano De Rosa; Federico Evangelisti; Ruben Farinelli; Lisa Ferro; Francesco Ficorella; Mauro Fiorini; Fabio Fuschino; José L. Gasent-Blesa; Giancarlo Ghirlanda; Marco Grassi; Cristiano Guidorzi; Paul Hedderman; Irfan Kuvvetli; Giovanni La Rosa; Paolo Lorenzi; Piero Malcovati; Ezequiel Marchesini; Martino Marisaldi; Michele Melchiorri; Filippo Mele; Malgorzata Mikhalska; Mauro Orlandini; Piotr Orleanski; Soren Moller Pedersen; Raffaele Piazzolla; Alexandre Rachevski; Irina Rashevskaya; Piero Rosati; Victor Reglero; Samuele Ronchini; Andrea Santangelo; Ruben Salvaterra; Paolo Sarra; Francesca Sortino; Giuseppe Sottile; Giulia Stratta; Stefano Squerzanti; John B. Stephen; Chris Tenzer; Luca Terenzi; Alessio Trois; Andrea Vacchi; Enrico Virgilli; Angela Volpe; Marek Winkler; Gianluigi Zampa; Nicola Zampa; Andrzej Zdziarski

doi:10.1117/12.2630178

31 August 2022 The X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) for THESEUS and other mission opportunities

Lorenzo Amati, Claudio Labanti, Sandro Mereghetti, Filippo Frontera, Riccardo Campana, Natalia Auricchio, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Pierluigi Bellutti, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Marica Branchesi, Reginald C. Butler, Maria D. Caballero-Garcia, Anna E. Camisasca, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Leo Cavazzini, Riccardo Ciolfi, Adriano De Rosa, Federico Evangelisti, Ruben Farinelli, Lisa Ferro, Francesco Ficorella, Mauro Fiorini, Fabio Fuschino, José L. Gasent-Blesa, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Marco Grassi, Cristiano Guidorzi, Paul Hedderman, Irfan Kuvvetli, Giovanni La Rosa, Paolo Lorenzi, Piero Malcovati, Ezequiel Marchesini, Martino Marisaldi, Michele Melchiorri, Filippo Mele, Malgorzata Mikhalska, Mauro Orlandini, Piotr Orleanski, Soren Moller Pedersen, Raffaele Piazzolla, Alexandre Rachevski, Irina Rashevskaya, Piero Rosati, Victor Reglero, Samuele Ronchini, Andrea Santangelo, Ruben Salvaterra, Paolo Sarra, Francesca Sortino, Giuseppe Sottile, Giulia Stratta, Stefano Squerzanti, John B. Stephen, Chris Tenzer, Luca Terenzi, Alessio Trois, Andrea Vacchi, Enrico Virgilli, Angela Volpe, Marek Winkler, Gianluigi Zampa, Nicola Zampa, Andrzej Zdziarski

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Proceedings Volume 12181, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1218126 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630178
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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We describe the science case, design and expected performances of the X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS), a GRB and transients monitor developed and studied for the THESEUS mission project, capable of covering an exceptionally wide energy band (2 keV – 10 MeV), with imaging capabilities and location accuracy <15 arcmin up to 150 keV over a Field of View of 2sr, a few hundreds eV energy resolution in the X-ray band (<30 keV) and few micro seconds time resolution over the whole energy band. Thanks to a design based on a modular approach, the XGIS can be easily re-scaled and adapted for fitting the available resources and specific scientific objectives of future high-energy astrophysics missions, and especially those aimed at fully exploiting GRBs and high-energy transients for multi-messenger astrophysics and fundamental physics.

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Lorenzo Amati, Claudio Labanti, Sandro Mereghetti, Filippo Frontera, Riccardo Campana, Natalia Auricchio, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Pierluigi Bellutti, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Marica Branchesi, Reginald C. Butler, Maria D. Caballero-Garcia, Anna E. Camisasca, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Leo Cavazzini, Riccardo Ciolfi, Adriano De Rosa, Federico Evangelisti, Ruben Farinelli, Lisa Ferro, Francesco Ficorella, Mauro Fiorini, Fabio Fuschino, José L. Gasent-Blesa, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Marco Grassi, Cristiano Guidorzi, Paul Hedderman, Irfan Kuvvetli, Giovanni La Rosa, Paolo Lorenzi, Piero Malcovati, Ezequiel Marchesini, Martino Marisaldi, Michele Melchiorri, Filippo Mele, Malgorzata Mikhalska, Mauro Orlandini, Piotr Orleanski, Soren Moller Pedersen, Raffaele Piazzolla, Alexandre Rachevski, Irina Rashevskaya, Piero Rosati, Victor Reglero, Samuele Ronchini, Andrea Santangelo, Ruben Salvaterra, Paolo Sarra, Francesca Sortino, Giuseppe Sottile, Giulia Stratta, Stefano Squerzanti, John B. Stephen, Chris Tenzer, Luca Terenzi, Alessio Trois, Andrea Vacchi, Enrico Virgilli, Angela Volpe, Marek Winkler, Gianluigi Zampa, Nicola Zampa, and Andrzej Zdziarski "The X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) for THESEUS and other mission opportunities", Proc. SPIE 12181, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1218126 (31 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630178

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