BurstCube: a CubeSat for gravitational wave counterparts
| Autor: | D. Morris, Dieter H. Hartmann, Regina Caputo, Boyan Hristov, Eric Burns, Carlos Vazquez, Sarah Walsh, J. G. Mitchell, Brad Cenko, George Suarez, Teresa Tatoli, Lee J. Mitchell, Isabella Brewer, Alessandro Bruno, Jeremy S. Perkins, Georgia A. de Nolfo, Peter Shawhan, M. Kippen, J.R. Smith, A. Y. Lien, Dan Kocevski, Carolyn Kierans, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Antonino Cucchiara, S. Laha, Alyson Joens, Oliver J. Roberts, Sheila McBreen, Sean Griffin, Michael S. Briggs, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, David Murphy, Judith Racusin, John F. Krizmanic, Lorraine Hanlon, Michelle Hui, Alexey Uliyanov, Jeff Dumonthier, Julie McEnery |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Physics
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Gravitational wave Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena media_common.quotation_subject Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astronomy Context (language use) LIGO Sky CubeSat KAGRA Gamma-ray burst Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope media_common |
| Zdroj: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. |
| Popis: | BurstCube aims to expand sky coverage in order to detect, localize, and rapidly disseminate information about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). BurstCube is a ’6U’ CubeSat with an instrument comprised of 4 Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillators coupled to arrays of Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) and will be sensitive to gamma-rays between 50 keV and 1 MeV. BurstCube will assist current observatories, such as Swift and Fermi, in the detection of GRBs as well as provide astronomical context to gravitational wave (GW) events detected by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. BurstCube is currently in its development phase with a launch readiness date in early 2022. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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