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DarkNESS: developing a skipper-CCD instrument to search for Dark Matter from Low Earth Orbit

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arxiv 2412.12084 v1 pith:5YEJNGFU submitted 2024-12-16 astro-ph.IM

Phoenix Alpine , Samriddhi Bhatia , Fernando Chierchie , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Rouven Essig , Juan Estrada , Erez Etzion , Roni Harnik
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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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