ADAPT
Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope
Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope
ADAPT (the Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope) is a NASA suborbital mission planned for a high-altitude flight from Antarctic in 2025. ADAPT is a 0.5mx0.5m cross-section instrument consisting of a scintillating fiber-tracker, and imaging (CsI) calorimeter and silicon strip detector for gamma-ray and cosmic-ray measurements. The ADAPT instrument will demonstrate the major detector components for the larger space-based APT mission and will provide sensitivity to gamma-ray transients and a sky map in the MeV-GeV range during the ~30 day flight. ADAPT will also make cosmic-ray measurements during its flight, demonstrating the potential for a longer duration space experiment (APT) measure the elemental abundance of rare ultra-heavy cosmic-rays. Even during the brief flight, ADAPT is expected to provide prompt degree-scale localizations and polarization constraints on a few gamma-ray bursts, and provide better instantaneous sensitivity than existing instruments at energies below 100 MeV. The ADAPT instrument is being constructed by the APT collaboration including participants from Washington University (the PI institution), the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Louisiana State University, the INFN Bari, the INFN Pisa, the Naval Research Lab, University of Hawaii, and the University of Minnesota.
ADAPT Detector
APT in Orbit
Science Goals
| Collaborator | Institution |
|---|---|
| Corrado Altomare | 12 |
| Matthew Andrew | 5 |
| Blake Bal | 7 |
| Richard G. Bose | 7 |
| Dana Braun | 7 |
| James H. Buckley | 7 |
| Jeremy Buhler | 2 |
| Eric Burns | 4 |
| Roger D. Chamberlain | 2 |
| Wenlei Chen | 6 |
| Michael L. Cherry | 4 |
| Leonardo Di Venere | 12 |
| Jeffrey Dumonthier | 13 |
| Manel Errando | 7 |
| Stefan Funk | 10 |
| Priya Ghosh | 8 |
| Francesco Giordano | 9 |
| Jonah Hoffman | 7 |
| Ye Htet | 2 |
| Zachary Hughes | 7 |
| Aera Jung | 5 |
| Patrick L. Kelly | 6 |
| John F. Krizmanic | 13 |
| Makiko Kuwahara | 3 |
| Francesco Licciulli | 12 |
| Gang Liu | 16 |
| Leonarda Lorusso | 9 |
| Mario Nicola Mazziotta | 12 |
| John Grant Mitchell | 11 |
| John W. Mitchell | 1 |
| Georgia A. de Nolfo | 11 |
| Giuliana Panzarini | 15 |
| Richard Peschke | 5 |
| Riccardo Paoletti | 17 |
| Roberta Pillera | 15 |
| Brian Rauch | 7 |
| Davide Serini | 12 |
| Garry Simburger | 7 |
| Marion Sudvarg | 2 |
| George Suarez | 13 |
| Teresa Tatoli | 11 |
| Gary S. Varner | 5 |
| Eric A. Wulf | 14 |
| Adrian Zink | 10 |
| Wolfgang V. Zober | 7 |
| Institutions | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA |
| 2 | Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA |
| 3 | Department of Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA |
| 4 | Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA |
| 5 | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA |
| 6 | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA |
| 7 | Department of Physics and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA |
| 8 | Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, 20064 |
| 9 | Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy |
| 10 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany |
| 11 | Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA |
| 12 | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy |
| 13 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA |
| 14 | Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA |
| 15 | Politecnico di Bari, Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, via Orabona, 4, I-70125 Bari, Italy |
| 16 | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Mailstop 0094, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA |
| 17 | Università di Siena and INFN Pisa, I-53100 Siena, Italy |
Marion Sudvarg, Ye Htet, Roger D. Chamberlain, Jeremy Buhler, Blake Bal, Corrado Altomare, Davide Serini, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Leonardo Di Venere, Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley, Ulysses Atekson, Meagan Konst, Thomas Lang, Shun Li, Diana Pacheco-Garcia, Nick Song, Chenfeng Zhao, Zhiting Zhou. “Front-End Computational Modeling and Design for the Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope.” In Proc. of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2023), July 2023. [ preliminary paper | poster ]
Ye Htet, Marion Sudvarg, Jeremy Buhler, Roger D. Chamberlain, Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley. “Prompt and Accurate GRB Source Localization Aboard the Advanced Particle Astrophysics Telescope (APT) and its Antarctic Demonstrator (ADAPT).” In Proc. of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2023), July 2023. [ preliminary paper | poster ]
Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley. “Simulation of the instrument performance of the Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope in the presence of the MeV background.” In Proc. of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2023), July 2023. [ preliminary paper ]
James Buckley. The ADAPT Mission: The Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle Astrophysics Telescope 20th Divisional Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical Society, March 2023. [ poster ]
Wenlei Chen, James Buckley, Roger Chamberlain, Marion Sudvarg. The Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope: Reconstruction of the MeV gamma ray sky and estimation of point source sensitivity in the presence of the background 20th Divisional Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical Society, March 2023. [ poster ]
Marion Sudvarg, Meagan Konst, Thomas Lang, Diana Pacheco-Garcia, Roger Chamberlain, Jeremy Buhler, James Buckley. Design of Front-end Signal Processing for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope 20th Divisional Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical Society, March 2023. [ poster ]
Ye Htet, Marion Sudvarg, Jeremy Buhler, Roger Chamberlain, James Buckley. Prompt, Accurate Localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope 20th Divisional Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical Society, March 2023. [ poster ]
M. Sudvarg, J. Buhler, R. Chamberlain, C. Gill, and J. Buckley. Work in Progress: Real-Time GRB Localization for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope. 16th annual workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT), July 2022. [ paper]
Jacob Wheelock, William Kanu, Marion Sudvarg, Zhili Xiao, Jeremy D. Buhler, Roger D. Chamberlain, and James H. Buckley. Supporting multi-messenger astrophysics with fast gamma-ray burst localization. In Proc. of IEEE/ACM HPC for Urgent Decision Making Workshop (UrgentHPC), November 2021. [ paper | code ]
Marion Sudvarg, Jacob Wheelock, Jeremy D. Buhler, James H. Buckley, and Wenlei Chen. Parallel GRB source localization pipelines for the advanced particle-astrophysics telescope. In Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), November 2021. [ extended abstract | poster ]
Marion Sudvarg, Jeremy Buhler, James H. Buckley, Wenlei Chen, Zachary Hughes, Emily Ramey, Michael L. Cherry, Samer Alnussirat, Ryan Larm, Christofer Chungata, et al. A Fast GRB Source Localization Pipeline for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope. In Proc. of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2021), volume 395, pages 588:1–588:9, July 2021. [ paper ]
James Buckley. The Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (APT) Project Status. In Proc. of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2021), volume 395, pages 655:1–655:9, July 2021. [ paper ]
Wenlei Chen and James H. Buckley. The Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope: Simulation of the Instrument Performance for Gamma-Ray Detection. In Proc. of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2021), volume 395, pages 590:1–590:9, July 2021. [ paper ]
Zachary Hughes and James Buckley. Characterization of a prototype imaging calorimeter for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope from an Antarctic balloon flight and CERN beam test. In Proc. of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference – PoS(ICRC2021), volume 395, pages 137:1–137:9, July 2021. [ paper ]
C. Altomare, J. Buckley, W. Chen, L. Di Venere, F. Gargano, F. Giordano, F. Loparco, M.N. Mazziotta, D. Serini. Simulation of a Compton-pair imaging calorimeter and tracking system for the next generation of MeV gamma-ray telescopes In Proc. of the International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2021), May 2021. [ paper ]