Functional tests of the detector assembly demonstration model of the eXTP wide field monitor: system description and results
Abstract The Wide Field Monitor is one of the 4 state-of-the-art instruments onboard the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, which will search for and observe neutron stars, magnetars and black holes to study matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. The wide-field cameras of the Wide Field Monitor are based on large-area silicon drift detectors. Such position-sensitive spectroscopic detectors, together with their front-end electronics, must pass a series of functional tests before proceeding with the mass production of the detector assemblies. This paper describes the test system developed to carry out such measurements, as well as reporting the results of the functional tests together with a preliminary characterisation of the performance of the detector assemblies.
Authors
- P. Bellutti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-3654)
- Evgeny Demenev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-7751)
- Y. Evangelista (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-6710)
- G. Orzan
- M. Feroci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7617-3421)
- Roland Tacken
- A. Meuris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-8797)
- Giovanni Della Casa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1077-3875)
- A. Picciotto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4089-9503)
- M. Centis Vignali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4177-9087)
- Francesco Ceraudo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9110-3192)
- V. Bonvicini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-5843)
- J. J. M. in ’t Zand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4363-1756)
- F. Ficorella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0296-1193)
- J. L. Gálvez Sanchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-0573)
- G. Zampa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-4469)
- M. Hernanz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8651-7910)
- G. Borghi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8488-4728)
- Phillip Laubert
- N. Zampa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3842-993X)
- D. Cirrincione (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-0738)
- M. Antonelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3400-6710)
- G. Pepponi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7397-1946)
- D. Baudin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2206-9274)
- A. Rachevski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2723-6297)
- Gabby Aitink-Kroes
- F. Zwart
- A. Samusenko
- R. de la Rie
- I. Rashevskaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7625-9903)
- N. Zorzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6650-3925)
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Trieste (IT)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation (FR)
- Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (ES)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics And Applications (IT)
- Institute of Space Sciences (ES)
- CEA Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste (IT)
- ET International (United States) (US)
- Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (FR)
- Space Research Organisation Netherlands (NL)
- National Institute for Astrophysics (IT)
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/04/c04010
- Primary Topic
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00