MoonBEAM: Gamma-Ray Burst Detectors on SmallSAT

Hui, C M ; Briggs, M S ; Goldstein, A M ; Jenke, P A ; Kocevski, D ; Wilson-Hodge, C A

关键词: GAMMA RAY BURSTS;    CISLUNAR SPACE;    TIME RESPONSE;    GRAVITATIONAL WAVES;    SMALL SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY;    GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY;    EARTH ORBITS;    GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS;    BLACK HOLES (ASTRONOMY);   

RP-ID  :  MSFC-E-DAA-TN53283

学科分类：空间科学

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM) is a CubeSat concept of deploying gamma-ray detectors in cislunar space to improve localization precision for gamma-ray bursts by utilizing the light travel time difference between a spacecraft in Earth and cislunar orbit. MoonBEAM is designed with high TRL components to be flight ready. This instrument would probe the extreme processes in cosmic collision of compact objects and facilitate multi-messenger time-domain astronomy to explore the end of stellar life cycles and black hole formations.