DarkNESS: developing a skipper-CCD instrument to search for Dark Matter from Low Earth Orbit
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| author | Alpine, Phoenix Bhatia, Samriddhi Chierchie, Fernando Drlica-Wagner, Alex Essig, Rouven Estrada, Juan Etzion, Erez Harnik, Roni Lembeck, Michael Saffold, Nathan Uemura, Sho |
| author_facet | Alpine, Phoenix Bhatia, Samriddhi Chierchie, Fernando Drlica-Wagner, Alex Essig, Rouven Estrada, Juan Etzion, Erez Harnik, Roni Lembeck, Michael Saffold, Nathan Uemura, Sho |
| contents | The DarkNESS (Dark Matter Nano-satellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors) mission aims to deploy a skipper-CCD CubeSat Observatory to search for dark matter (DM) from Low Earth Orbit. This mission will employ novel skipper-CCDs to investigate O(keV) X-rays from decaying DM, as well as electron recoils from strongly-interacting sub-GeV DM. The DarkNESS mission will be the first space deployment of skipper-CCDs, and the DarkNESS team is developing a skipper-CCD instrument that is compatible with the CubeSat platform. DarkNESS has recently progressed from laboratory validation to a Critical Design Review (CDR) phase, with a launch opportunity anticipated in late 2025. The implementation of the DarkNESS skipper-CCD payload on the CubeSat platform will pave the way for future demonstrators of space-based imagers for X-ray and single-electron counting applications. |
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| spellingShingle | DarkNESS: developing a skipper-CCD instrument to search for Dark Matter from Low Earth Orbit Alpine, Phoenix Bhatia, Samriddhi Chierchie, Fernando Drlica-Wagner, Alex Essig, Rouven Estrada, Juan Etzion, Erez Harnik, Roni Lembeck, Michael Saffold, Nathan Uemura, Sho Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The DarkNESS (Dark Matter Nano-satellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors) mission aims to deploy a skipper-CCD CubeSat Observatory to search for dark matter (DM) from Low Earth Orbit. This mission will employ novel skipper-CCDs to investigate O(keV) X-rays from decaying DM, as well as electron recoils from strongly-interacting sub-GeV DM. The DarkNESS mission will be the first space deployment of skipper-CCDs, and the DarkNESS team is developing a skipper-CCD instrument that is compatible with the CubeSat platform. DarkNESS has recently progressed from laboratory validation to a Critical Design Review (CDR) phase, with a launch opportunity anticipated in late 2025. The implementation of the DarkNESS skipper-CCD payload on the CubeSat platform will pave the way for future demonstrators of space-based imagers for X-ray and single-electron counting applications. |
| title | DarkNESS: developing a skipper-CCD instrument to search for Dark Matter from Low Earth Orbit |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12084 |