Towards efficient machine-learning-based reduction of the cosmic-ray induced background in X-ray imaging detectors: increasing context awareness

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Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Artem Poliszczuk, Dan Wilkins, Steven W. Allen, Eric D. Miller, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay | Summary: Traditional cosmic ray filtering algorithms used in X-ray imaging detectors aboard space telescopes perform event reconstruction based on the properties of activated pixels above a certain energy threshold, within 3×3 or 5×5 […]


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Towards efficient machine-learning-based reduction of the cosmic-ray induced background in X-ray imaging detectors: increasing context awareness

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Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Artem Poliszczuk, Dan Wilkins, Steven W. Allen, Eric D. Miller, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay | Summary: Traditional cosmic ray filtering algorithms used in X-ray imaging detectors aboard space telescopes perform event reconstruction based on the properties of activated pixels above a certain energy threshold, within 3×3 or 5×5 pixel […]


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Towards efficient machine-learning-based reduction of the cosmic-ray induced background in X-ray imaging detectors: increasing context awareness

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Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Artem Poliszczuk, Dan Wilkins, Steven W. Allen, Eric D. Miller, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay | Summary: Traditional cosmic ray filtering algorithms used in X-ray imaging detectors aboard space telescopes perform event reconstruction based on the properties of activated pixels above a certain energy threshold, within 3×3 or 5×5 pixel […]


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Hydrophilic/ Omniphobic droplet arrays for high-throughput and quantitative enzymology

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Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: Byungjin Lee, Fanny Sunden, Michael Miller, Bumshik Pak, Anke Krebber, Stefan Lutz and Polly M Fordyce | Summary: Engineered enzymes with enhanced or novel functions are specific catalysts with wide-ranging applications in industry and medicine. Here, we introduce Droplet Array Microfluidic Enzyme Kinetics (DA-MEK), a high-throughput enzyme screening platform […]


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Continued developments in X-ray speed reading: fast, low noise readout for next-generation wide-field imagers

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Kavli Affiliate: Gregory Prigozhin | First 5 Authors: Sven Herrmann, Peter Orel, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Glenn Morris, Gregory Prigozhin | Summary: Future strategic X-ray astronomy missions will require unprecedentedly sensitive wide-field imagers providing high frame rates, low readout noise and excellent soft energy response. To meet these needs, our team is employing a multi-pronged approach to […]


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Continued developments in X-ray speed reading: fast, low noise readout for next-generation wide-field imagers

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Kavli Affiliate: Marshall W. Bautz | First 5 Authors: Sven Herrmann, Peter Orel, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Glenn Morris, Gregory Prigozhin | Summary: Future strategic X-ray astronomy missions will require unprecedentedly sensitive wide-field imagers providing high frame rates, low readout noise and excellent soft energy response. To meet these needs, our team is employing a multi-pronged approach […]


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X-ray speed reading with the MCRC: prototype success and next generation upgrades

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Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Peter Orel, Abigail Y. Pan, Sven Herrmann, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Glenn Morris | Summary: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a NASA probe class mission concept designed to deliver arcsecond resolution with an effective area ten times that of Chandra (at launch). The AXIS focal plane features […]


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X-ray speed reading with the MCRC: prototype success and next generation upgrades

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Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Peter Orel, Abigail Y. Pan, Sven Herrmann, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Glenn Morris | Summary: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a NASA probe class mission concept designed to deliver arcsecond resolution with an effective area ten times that of Chandra (at launch). The AXIS focal plane features […]


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X-ray speed reading with the MCRC: prototype success and next generation upgrades

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Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Peter Orel, Abigail Y. Pan, Sven Herrmann, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Glenn Morris | Summary: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a NASA probe class mission concept designed to deliver arcsecond resolution with an effective area ten times that of Chandra (at launch). The AXIS focal plane features […]


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The XOC X-ray Beamline: Probing Colder, Quieter, and Softer

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Kavli Affiliate: Sven C. Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Haley R. Stueber, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Sven C. Herrmann, Peter Orel, Tsion Gebre | Summary: Future strategic X-ray satellite telescopes, such as the probe-class Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), will require excellent soft energy response in their imaging detectors to enable maximum discovery potential. In order to […]


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