The Falcone Group consists of two working groups: The High Energy Astrophysics Detector and Instrumentation (HEADI) Lab and the High Energy Analysis Group. Abe Falcone is the Principal Investigator for both research groups.
What We Do:
X-ray Detector Development: Designing, testing, and calibrating cutting edge X-ray detectors that can be used on future X-ray observatories.
Space Mission Electronics Development: We also design and develop custom low-noise, space-grade electronics.
CubeSat Project: Currently designing and building BlackCAT, a NASA funded 6U CubeSat mission to discover and study high redshift gamma-ray bursts and other X-ray transients.
High Energy and Multi-wavelength Analysis: We use Swift, Fermi, VERITAS, and many other observatories to study and model emission from active galactic nuclei, gamma ray bursts, X-ray binaries, unassociated gamma-ray sources, and myriad high energy transients.
BlackCAT Team Meets at the Barron Innovation Hub
The BlackCAT team meets to present and discuss the design and progress of the BlackCAT CubeSat Mission.
HEADI lab in the News:
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currently a group of six faculty / staff / postdoc members, four graduate students, and five undergraduates.
