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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 121: Cosmic Ray VI

T 121.3: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 23. März 2023, 16:20–16:35, POT/0081

The RadMap Telescope --- Ready for Flight — •Martin J. Losekamm¹, Liesa Eckert¹, Peter Hinderberger¹, Stephan Paul¹, Thomas Pöschl¹, and Sebastian Rückerl² — ¹Technical University of Munich, Department of Physics, Garching, Germany — ²Technical University of Munich, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Garching, Germany

The RadMap Telescope will demonstrate new technologies for the characterization of the nuclear component of cosmic rays by measuring the radiation environment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). At the heart of the instrument is a tracking calorimeter made from scintillating-plastic fibers and silicon photomultipliers capable of recording particle-dependent energy spectra; several silicon-based dosimeters provide additional dosimetry information. RadMap will be deployed to the ISS in March 2023, with operations expected to begin a few weeks later. In this contribution, we present the instrument design, its capabilities, and our plans for on-orbit operations that shall lead to a full validation of the central detector and its read-out electronics. Our work is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, project number 414049180) and under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC2094 - 390783311.