A summary on an investigation of GAGG:Ce afterglow emission in the context of future space applications within the HERMES nanosatellite mission

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00117679

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561053" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561053</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2561053" target="_blank" >10.1117/12.2561053</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A summary on an investigation of GAGG:Ce afterglow emission in the context of future space applications within the HERMES nanosatellite mission

Original language description

GAGG:Ce (Cerium-doped Gadolinium Aluminium Gallium Garnet) is a promising new scintillator crystal. A wide array of interesting features, such as high light output, fast decay times, almost non-existent intrinsic background and robustness, make GAGG:Ce an interesting candidate as a component of new space-based gamma-ray detectors. As a consequence of its novelty, literature on GAGG:Ce is still lacking on points crucial to its applicability in space missions. In particular, GAGG:Ce is characterized by unusually high and long-lasting delayed luminescence. This afterglow emission can be stimulated by the interactions between the scintillator and the particles of the near-Earth radiation environment. By contributing to the noise, it will impact the detector performance to some degree. In this manuscript we summarize the results of an irradiation campaign of GAGG:Ce crystals with protons, conducted in the framework of the HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites - Technological and Scientific Pathfinder) mission. A GAGG:Ce sample was irradiated with 70 MeV protons, at doses equivalent to those expected in equatorial and sun-synchronous LowEarth orbits over orbital periods spanning 6 months to 10 years, time lapses representative of satellite lifetimes. We introduce a new model of GAGG:Ce afterglow emission able to fully capture our observations. Results are applied to the HERMES-TP/SP scenario, aiming at an upper-bound estimate of the detector performance degradation due to the afterglow emission expected from the interaction between the scintillator and the nearEarth radiation environment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1144493

ISBN

9781510636750

ISSN

0277-786X

e-ISSN

1996-756X

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

„1144493-1“-„1144493-8“

Publisher name

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

Place of publication

Bellingham

Event location

California

Event date

Dec 14, 2020

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000674737700133