Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Authors: 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
Institutions: Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Hiroshima University, Masaryk University, Technical University of Košice, Kyoto University, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G6895411296, G7798551118, G8854761416
OpenAlex ID: W3106599310