MoonBEAM: A Beyond Earth-Orbit Gamma-Ray Burst Detector for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

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

关键词: EARTH ORBITS;    GAMMA RAY BURSTS;    GRAVITATIONAL WAVES;    CISLUNAR SPACE;    GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY;    TIME RESPONSE;    SMALL SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY;    GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS;    LIGHT SPEED;    FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE;    LOW EARTH ORBITS;    HALOS;    COLLISIONS;   

RP-ID  :  MSFC-E-DAA-TN54031

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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 different orbits. We present here a gamma-ray SmallSat concept in Earth-Moon L3 halo orbit that is capable of rapid response and provide a timing baseline for localization improvement when partnered with an Earth-orbit instrument. Such an 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.