Reconstructing Particle Tracks with the RadMap Telescope

by Luise Meyer-Hetling (TUM)

Thursday 20 Jun 2024, 09:30 → 10:30 Europe/Berlin

E18/ENE Seminar Room 3268 (TUM PH)

Detailed knowledge of the radiation environment in space is an indispensable prerequisite of any space mission in low Earth orbit or beyond. The RadMap Telescope is a compact multi-purpose radiation detector developed to provide near real-time monitoring of the radiation aboard spacecrafts. A prototype has been deployed on the International Space Station in April 2023 for an in-orbit demonstration of the instrument’s capabilities. I will present a first overview of the detector’s general performance in a space environment as well as some early results and discuss the on-going efforts to gain a better understanding of the data provided by the instrument and the implicated read-out effects. An overview of the data analysis framework that is currently being developed to identify and process particle-track events will be given.