Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
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.
Keywords:
Space Sciences (General); Astronomy
Type:
MSFC-E-DAA-TN54031
,
High Energy Astrophsics in the 2020''s and Beyond; Mar 18, 2018 - Mar 21, 2018; Rosemont, IL; United States
Format:
application/pdf
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