The HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder mission
HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Pathfinder is a space-borne mission based on a constellation of six nano-satellites flying in a low-Earth orbit (LEO). The 3U CubeSats, to be launched in early 2025, host miniaturized instruments with a hybrid Silicon Drift Detector/GAGG:Ce scintillator photodetector system, sensitive to X-rays and gamma-rays in a large energy band. HERMES will operate in conjunction with Australian Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) 6U CubeSat, launched in December 2023. HERMES will probe the temporal emission of bright high-energy transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), ensuring a fast transient localization in a field of view of several steradians exploiting the triangulation technique. HERMES intrinsically modular transient monitoring experiment represents a keystone capability to complement the next generation of gravitational wave experiments. In this paper we outline the scientific case, development and programmatic status of the mission
Authors
- P. Bellutti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-3654)
- Evgeny Demenev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-7751)
- Giuseppe Dilillo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5132-9821)
- A. Riggio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6145-9224)
- Simonetta Puccetti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2734-7835)
- Michele Bechini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0031-0266)
- Y. Evangelista (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-6710)
- R. Campana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4794-5453)
- P. Malcovati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6514-9672)
- Marco Citossi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3322-234X)
- Michèle Lavagna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-1437)
- A. Rashevsky
- Ivan Troisi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6843-1785)
- A. Vacchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3855-5856)
- M. Feroci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7617-3421)
- Andrea Colagrossi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-1639)
- Shuang‐Nan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5586-1017)
- Filippo Mele (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7882-6879)
- Giulia Baroni
- Stefano Silvestrini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2664-443X)
- A. Sanna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0118-2649)
- Alessio Nuti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9352-2355)
- Giovanni Della Casa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1077-3875)
- A. Picciotto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4089-9503)
- M. Grassi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1369-5369)
- M. Perri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3613-4409)
- T. Di Salvo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3220-6375)
- Francesco Ceraudo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9110-3192)
- S. L. Xiong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4771-7653)
- G. Ghirlanda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5876-9259)
- E. J. Marchesini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8368-8565)
- G. Morgante (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-7412)
- F. Ficorella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0296-1193)
- Simone Pirrotta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0377-8937)
- Lara Nava (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5960-0455)
- Francesco De Cecio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9015-7047)
- Barbara Negri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7170-1566)
- F. Fiore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4031-4157)
- G. Zampa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-4469)
- Alessandra Tiberia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-808X)
- J. Řípa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3994-7528)
- Andrea Brandonisio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8203-1879)
- L. Burderi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5458-891X)
- Roberto Bertacin
- Matteo Quirino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7588-7721)
- M. Fiorini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8297-1983)
- Paolo Nogara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4426-3844)
- Raffaele Piazzolla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4222-6919)
- Alice Dottori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0600-6767)
- G. Bertuccio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-021X)
- Francesco Russo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8469-5713)
- G. Pepponi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7397-1946)
- Norbert Werner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0392-0120)
- C. Labanti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5086-3619)
- G. La Rosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3931-2269)
- Michele Trenti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9391-305X)
- Samuel Pliego-Caballero
- A. Santangelo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4187-9560)
- W. Leone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4773-3370)
- Tianxiang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8059-3672)
- Na Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0475-8698)
- Marianna Rinaldi
- Giuseppe Sottile
- Chiara Grappasonni
- Irina Rashevskaya
- Nicola Zorzi
- Christoph Tenzer
- Nicola Zampa
- Paul Hedderman
- Alejandro Guzmán Cabrera
- S. Trevisan
Institutions
- Pathfinder International (US)
- Masaryk University (CZ)
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)
- Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano Bicocca (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (IT)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- National Institute for Astrophysics (IT)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-08-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018259
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.99
Funders
- European Commission