GRBAlpha: A 1U CubeSat mission for validating timing-based gamma-ray burst localization
Autor: | Pál, András, Ohno, Masanori, Mészáros, László, Werner, Norbert, Řípa, Jakub, Frajt, Marcel, Hirade, Naoyoshi, Hudec, Ján, Kapuš, Jakub, Koleda, Martin, Laszlo, Robert, Lipovský, Pavol, Matake, Hiroto, Šmelko, Miroslav, Uchida, Nagomi, Csák, Balázs, Enoto, Teruaki, Frei, Zsolt, Fukazawa, Yasushi, Galgóczi, Gábor, Hirose, Kengo, Hisadomihi, Syohei, Ichinohe, Yuto, Kiss, László L., Mizuno, Tsunefumi, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Odaka, Hirokazu, Takahashi, Hiromitsu, Torigoe, Kento |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
Popis: | GRBAlpha is a 1U CubeSat mission with an expected launch date in the first half of 2021. It carries a 75 x 75 x 5 mm CsI(Tl) scintillator, read out by a dual-channel multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) setup, to detect gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The GRB detector is an in-orbit demonstration for the detector system on the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT) mission. While GRBAlpha provides 1/8th of the expected effective area of CAMELOT, the comparison of the observed light curves with other existing GRB monitoring satellites will allow us to validate the core idea of CAMELOT, i.e. the feasibility of timing-based localization. Comment: Submitted to the Proceedings of the SPIE for Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020 |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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