Timepix3: temperature influence on radiation energy measurement with Si sensor

M Urban, O Nentvich, L Marek, R Hudec, L Sieger - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Timepix3 readout ASIC chip is a hybrid pixelated radiation detector, designed at CERN,
which contains a 256 px× 256 px matrix. Each of the 65,536 radiation-sensitive pixels can …

Biomimetic space debris removal: conceptual design of bio-inspired active debris removal scenarios

E Banken, VE Schneider, MK Ben-Larbi… - CEAS Space …, 2023 - Springer
The ever-increasing number of man-made space debris creates the need for new
technologies to mitigate it. Therefore, within the ESA-funded project BIOINSPACED …

Timepix3: Temperature influence on X-ray measurements in counting mode with Si sensor

M Urban, D Doubravova - Radiation Measurements, 2021 - Elsevier
The Timepix3 radiation imaging and particle tracking detector is the direct successor to the
Timepix semiconductor detector developed in CERN. The Timepix ASIC chip (256× 256 …

REX: X-ray experiment on the water recovery rocket

M Urban, O Nentvich, T Báča, I Veřtát, V Maršíková… - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper presents Rocket Experiment (REX) that was part of a dual-payload
rocket campaign for NASA's sounding rocket Black Brant IX with water recovery technology …

Small Spacecraft Payload Study for X-ray Astrophysics including GRB Science

V Dániel, V Maršíková, R Hudec, L Pína, A Inneman… - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents microsatellite spacecraft payload study for prompt observation of
transient astrophysical objects in X-ray energy range. By combining telescope concepts and …

Directional-Sensitive X-ray/Gamma-ray Imager on Board the VZLUSAT-2 CubeSat for Wide Field-of-View Observation of GRBs in Low Earth Orbit

C Granja, R Hudec, V Maršíková, A Inneman, L Pína… - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present a miniaturized and wide field-of-view X-ray and Gamma-ray imager consisting of
a segmented 2D optics-collimator coupled to the high-sensitivity semiconductor pixel …

PyXLA: Python x-ray-tracing for Lobster-Eye application

O Nentvich, M Urban, R Hudec - Journal of Optics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Collimation of x-rays is challenging, especially for a wide range of grazing-incidence angles.
One of the promising x-ray optics can be a wide-field Lobster-Eye (LE) optics in Schmidt's …

Timepix3: Compensation of Thermal Distortion of Energy Measurement

M Urban, O Nentvich, L Marek, D Hladik, R Hudec… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Timepix3 is a hybrid pixellated radiation detector consisting of a 256 px× 256 px
radiation-sensitive matrix. Research has shown that it is susceptible to energy spectrum …

Soft X-ray observing the cosmic sources by the ESA–CAS satellite SMILE

V Šimon, R Hudec, A Read - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper describes the scientific potential of a Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) onboard the ESA–
CAS satellite SMILE for investigating cosmic X-ray sources of various types. We show that …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing Bioinspired Concepts for Space Debris Removal and evaluating their feasibility for simple demonstrator design

E Banken, VE Schneider, L Pohl, J Kniep… - … Conference on Space …, 2021 - researchgate.net
The ESA-funded project BIOINSPACED intends to find biomimetic solutions for new
technologies that can contribute to ESA's' Clean Space'initiative by mitigating space debris …