Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2

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Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2

ŘÍPA, Jakub; András PÁL; Masanori OHNO; Norbert WERNER; László MÉSZÁROS et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2

Autoři

Vydání

Washington, Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, od s. 1-11, 11 s. 2022

Nakladatel

SPIE

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

URL, URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00127112

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

ISBN

978-1-5106-5343-6

ISSN

Klíčová slova anglicky

gamma-rays; gamma-ray bursts; high-energy astrophysics; nano-satellites; instrumentation; detectors; scintillators; multi-pixel photon counter; low Earth orbit background

Štítky

14312040, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 19. 1. 2023 15:10, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

We present the detector performance and early science results from GRBAlpha, a 1U CubeSat mission, which is a technological pathfinder to a future constellation of nanosatellites monitoring gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GRBAlpha was launched in March 2021 and operates on a 550 km altitude sun-synchronous orbit. The gamma-ray burst detector onboard GRBAlpha consists of a 75×75×5 mm CsI(Tl) scintillator, read out by a dual-channel multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) setup. It is sensitive in the ∼30−900 keV range. The main goal of GRBAlpha is the in-orbit demonstration of the detector concept, verification of the detector’s lifetime, and measurement of the background level on low-Earth orbit, including regions inside the outer Van Allen radiation belt and in the South Atlantic anomaly. GRBAlpha has already detected five, both long and short, GRBs and two bursts were detected within a time-span of only 8 hours, proving that nanosatellites can be used for routine detection of gamma-ray transients. For one GRB, we were able to obtain a high resolution spectrum and compare it with measurements from the Swift satellite. We find that, due to the variable background, the time fraction of about 67% of the low-Earth polar orbit is suitable for gamma-ray burst detection. One year after launch, the detector performance is good and the degradation of the MPPC photon counters remains at an acceptable level. The same detector system, but double in size, was launched in January 2022 on VZLUSAT-2 (3U CubeSat). It performs well and already detected three GRBs and two solar flares. Here, we present early results from this mission as well.

Návaznosti

MUNI/I/0003/2020, interní kód MU

Název: MUNI Award in Science and Humanities 3 (Akronym: Space-Based High-Energy Astrophysics)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, MUNI Award in Science and Humanities 3, MASH - MUNI Award in Science and Humanities

871158, interní kód MU

Název: Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD2020) (Akronym: AHEAD2020)

Investor: Evropská unie, Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD2020), RI Research Infrastructures (Excellent Science)

Citovat

ŘÍPA, Jakub; András PÁL; Masanori OHNO; Norbert WERNER; László MÉSZÁROS; Balázs CSÁK; Marianna DAFČÍKOVÁ; Vladimír DÁNIEL; Juraj DUDÁŠ; Marcel FRAJT; Peter HANÁK; Ján HUDEC; Milan JUNAS; Jakub KAPUŠ; Miroslav KASAL; Martin KOLEDA; Robert LASZLO; Pavol LIPOVSKY; Filip MÜNZ; Maksim REZENOV; Miroslav ŠMELKO; Petr SVOBODA; Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI; Martin TOPINKA; Tomáš URBANEC; Jean-Paul Bernhard RIFFALD SOUZA BREUER; Teruaki ENOTO; Zsolt FREI; Yasushi FUKAZAWA; Gábor GALGÓCZI; Filip HROCH; Yuto ICHINOHE; László L. KISS; Hiroto MATAKE; Tsunefumi MIZUNO; Kazuhiro NAKAZAWA; Hirokazu ODAKA; Helen POON; Nagomi UCHIDA a Yuusuke UCHIDA. Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2. Online. In Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Washington: SPIE, 2022, s. 1-11. ISBN 978-1-5106-5343-6. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629332.

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   address = {Washington},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray},
   doi = {https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629332},
   editor = {Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa},
   keywords = {gamma-rays; gamma-ray bursts; high-energy astrophysics; nano-satellites; instrumentation; detectors; scintillators; multi-pixel photon counter; low Earth orbit background},
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   location = {Washington},
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   title = {Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2},
   url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.03272.pdf},
   year = {2022}
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ER  -

ŘÍPA, Jakub; András PÁL; Masanori OHNO; Norbert WERNER; László MÉSZÁROS; Balázs CSÁK; Marianna DAFČÍKOVÁ; Vladimír DÁNIEL; Juraj DUDÁŠ; Marcel FRAJT; Peter HANÁK; Ján HUDEC; Milan JUNAS; Jakub KAPUŠ; Miroslav KASAL; Martin KOLEDA; Robert LASZLO; Pavol LIPOVSKY; Filip MÜNZ; Maksim REZENOV; Miroslav ŠMELKO; Petr SVOBODA; Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI; Martin TOPINKA; Tomáš URBANEC; Jean-Paul Bernhard RIFFALD SOUZA BREUER; Teruaki ENOTO; Zsolt FREI; Yasushi FUKAZAWA; Gábor GALGÓCZI; Filip HROCH; Yuto ICHINOHE; László L. KISS; Hiroto MATAKE; Tsunefumi MIZUNO; Kazuhiro NAKAZAWA; Hirokazu ODAKA; Helen POON; Nagomi UCHIDA a Yuusuke UCHIDA. Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2. Online. In Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa. \textit{Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray}. Washington: SPIE, 2022, s.~1-11. ISBN~978-1-5106-5343-6. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629332.

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