ComPair-2: A Next-Generation Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype

Regina Caputo; Carolyn Kierans; Nicholas Cannady; Abe Falcone; Yasushi Fukazawa; Manoj Jadhav; Matthew Kerr; Nicholas Kirschner; Kavic Kumar; Adrien Laviron; Richard Leys; Julie McEnery; Jessica Metcalfe; Zachary Metzler; Nathan Miller; John Mitchell; Lucas Parker; Ivan Peric; Jeremy Perkins; Bernard Phlips; Judith Racusin; Makoto Sasaki; Kenneth N. Segal; Daniel Shy; Amanda L. Steinhebel; Nicolas Striebig; Yusuke Suda; Hiroyasu Tajima; Janeth Valverde; Daniel P. Violette; Richard Woolf; Andreas Zoglauer

doi:10.1117/12.3017619

ComPair-2: A Next-Generation Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype

Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Nicholas Cannady, Abe Falcone, Yasushi Fukazawa, Manoj Jadhav, Matthew Kerr, Nicholas Kirschner, Kavic Kumar, Adrien Laviron, Richard Leys, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Zachary Metzler, Nathan Miller, John Mitchell, Lucas Parker, Ivan Peric, Jeremy Perkins, Bernard PhlipsJudith Racusin, Makoto Sasaki, Kenneth N. Segal, Daniel Shy, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Hiroyasu Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Daniel P. Violette, Richard Woolf, Andreas Zoglauer

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Abstract

Many questions posed in the Astro2020 Decadal survey in both the New Messengers and New Physics and the Cosmic Ecosystems science themes require a gamma-ray mission with capabilities exceeding those of existing (e.g. Fermi, Swift) and planned (e.g. COSI) observatories. ComPair, the Compton Pair telescope, is a prototype of such a next-generation gamma-ray mission. It had its inaugural balloon flight from F t. Sumner, New Mexico in August 2023. To continue the goals of the ComPair project to develop technologies that will enable a future gamma-ray mission, the next generation of ComPair (ComPair-2) will be upgraded to increase the sensitivity and low-energy transient capabilities of the instrument. These advancements are enabled by AstroPix, a silicon monolithic active pixel sensor, in the tracker and custom dual-gain silicon photomultipliers and front-end electronics in the calorimeter. This effort builds on design work for the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) concept that was submitted the 2021 MIDEX Announcement of Opportunity. Here we describe the ComPair-2 prototype design and integration and testing plans to advance the readiness level of these novel technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510675094
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017619
State	Published - 2024
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Yokohama, Japan Duration: Jun 16 2024 → Jun 21 2024

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	13093
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	06/16/24 → 06/21/24

Funding

This work is supported under NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) grants NNH17ZDA001NAPRA (improved Compton and pair event reconstruction), NNH18ZDA001N-APRA (AstroPix and dual-gain SiPM readouts for the CsI Calorimeter), and NNH22ZDA001N-APRA (ComPair-2). The material is based upon work supported by NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002.

Keywords

AMEGO-X
AstroPix
ComPair
future observatories
gamma-ray

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Caputo, R., Kierans, C., Cannady, N., Falcone, A., Fukazawa, Y., Jadhav, M., Kerr, M., Kirschner, N., Kumar, K., Laviron, A., Leys, R., McEnery, J., Metcalfe, J., Metzler, Z., Miller, N., Mitchell, J., Parker, L., Peric, I., Perkins, J., ... Zoglauer, A. (2024). ComPair-2: A Next-Generation Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype. In J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, & K. Nakazawa (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 130932L (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13093). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017619

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ComPair-2: A Next-Generation Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype. / Caputo, Regina; Kierans, Carolyn; Cannady, Nicholas et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Shouleh Nikzad; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2024. 130932L (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13093).

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Caputo R, Kierans C, Cannady N, Falcone A, Fukazawa Y, Jadhav M et al. ComPair-2: A Next-Generation Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype. In den Herder JWA, Nikzad S, Nakazawa K, editors, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. SPIE. 2024. 130932L. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.3017619

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