no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Isabella Brewer, Regina Caputo, Michela Negro, Richard Leys, Carolyn Kierans, Ivan Peric, Jessica Metcalfe, Jeremy Perkins
The goal of this paper is to determine the promise of pixelated silicon in future space-based gamma-ray experiments.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 16 May 2020 • Nikita Moriakov, Ashwin Samudre, Michela Negro, Fabian Gieseke, Sydney Otten, Luc Hendriks
We investigate the use of deep learning in the context of X-ray polarization detection from astrophysical sources as will be observed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a future NASA selected space-based mission expected to be operative in 2021.