GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3
years of operations

D 2024

GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations

MÜNZ, Filip; Jakub ŘÍPA; Andras PAK; Marianna DAFČÍKOVÁ; Norbert WERNER et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations

Autoři

Vydání

Vol. 13093. Washington, Proceedings of SPIE : Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024 : Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, PT 1, od s. 1-8, 8 s. 2024

Nakladatel

SPIE

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/24:00138404

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

ISBN

978-1-5106-7509-4

ISSN

Klíčová slova anglicky

gamma rays; CubeSat; SiPM; gamma-ray burst; high-energy astrophysics; transient detection; satellite constellation

Štítky

14312040, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 10. 1. 2025 08:55, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

GRBAlpha is a 1U CubeSat launched in March 2021 to a sun-synchronous LEO at an altitude of 550 km to perform an in-orbit demonstration of a novel gamma-ray burst detector developed for CubeSats. VZLUSAT-2 followed ten months later in a similar orbit carrying as a secondary payload a pair of identical detectors as used on the first mission. These instruments detecting gamma-rays in the range of 30-900 keV consist of a 56 cm2 5 mm thin CsI(Tl) scintillator read-out by a row of multi-pixel photon counters (MPPC or SiPM). The scientific motivation is to detect gamma-ray bursts and other HE transient events and serve as a pathfinder for a larger constellation of nanosatellites that could localize these events via triangulation. At the beginning of July 2024, GRBAlpha detected 140 such transients, while VZLUSAT-2 had 83 positive detections, confirmed by larger GRB missions. Almost a hundred of them are identified as gamma-ray bursts, including extremely bright GRB 221009A and GRB 230307A, detected by both satellites. We were able to characterize the degradation of SiPMs in polar orbit and optimize the duty cycle of the detector system also by using SatNOGS radio network for downlink.

Návaznosti

GC24-11487J, projekt VaV

Název: Společná pozorování gama záblesků malými družicemi

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Společná pozorování gama záblesků malými družicemi, Taiwan/MOST

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

MÜNZ, Filip; Jakub ŘÍPA; Andras PAK; Marianna DAFČÍKOVÁ; Norbert WERNER; Masanori OHNO; Laszlo MESZAROS; Vladimir DANIEL; Peter HANAK; Jan HUDEC; Marcel FRAJT; Jakub KAPUS; Petr SVOBODA; Juraj DUDAS; Miroslav KASAL; Tomáš VÍTEK; Martin KOLÁŘ; Lea SZAKSZONOVÁ; Pavol LIPOVSKY; Michaela ĎURÍŠKOVÁ; Ivo VERTAT; Martin SABOL; Milan JUNAS; Maros ROMAN; Pavel KOSÍK; Zsolt FREI; Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI; Yasushi FUKAZAWA; Gabor GALGOCZI; Balazs CSAKI; Robert LASZLO; Tsunefumi MIZUNO; Nikola HUSÁRIKOVÁ a Kazuhiro NAKAZAWA. GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations. In Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa. Proceedings of SPIE : Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024 : Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, PT 1. Vol. 13093. Washington: SPIE, 2024, s. 1-8. ISBN 978-1-5106-7509-4. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3025855.

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MÜNZ, Filip; Jakub ŘÍPA; Andras PAK; Marianna DAFČÍKOVÁ; Norbert WERNER; Masanori OHNO; Laszlo MESZAROS; Vladimir DANIEL; Peter HANAK; Jan HUDEC; Marcel FRAJT; Jakub KAPUS; Petr SVOBODA; Juraj DUDAS; Miroslav KASAL; Tomáš VÍTEK; Martin KOLÁŘ; Lea SZAKSZONOVÁ; Pavol LIPOVSKY; Michaela ĎURÍŠKOVÁ; Ivo VERTAT; Martin SABOL; Milan JUNAS; Maros ROMAN; Pavel KOSÍK; Zsolt FREI; Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI; Yasushi FUKAZAWA; Gabor GALGOCZI; Balazs CSAKI; Robert LASZLO; Tsunefumi MIZUNO; Nikola HUSÁRIKOVÁ a Kazuhiro NAKAZAWA. GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations. In Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa. \textit{Proceedings of SPIE : Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024 : Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, PT 1}. Vol. 13093. Washington: SPIE, 2024, s.~1-8. ISBN~978-1-5106-7509-4. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3025855.

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