GRBAlpha is a 1U CubeSat mission with an expected launch date in the first half of 2021. It carries a 75 x 75 x 5 mm CsI(Tl) scintillator, read out by a dual-channel multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) setup, to detect gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The GRB detector is an in-orbit demonstration for the detector system on the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT) mission. While GRBAlpha provides 1/8th of the expected effective area of CAMELOT, the comparison of the observed light curves with other existing GRB monitoring satellites will allow us to validate the core idea of CAMELOT, i.e. the feasibility of timing-based localization.
@article{arxiv.2012.01298,
title = {GRBAlpha: A 1U CubeSat mission for validating timing-based gamma-ray burst localization},
author = {András Pál and Masanori Ohno and László Mészáros and Norbert Werner and Jakub Řípa and Marcel Frajt and Naoyoshi Hirade and Ján Hudec and Jakub Kapuš and Martin Koleda and Robert Laszlo and Pavol Lipovský and Hiroto Matake and Miroslav Šmelko and Nagomi Uchida and Balázs Csák and Teruaki Enoto and Zsolt Frei and Yasushi Fukazawa and Gábor Galgóczi and Kengo Hirose and Syohei Hisadomihi and Yuto Ichinohe and László L. Kiss and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Kazuhiro Nakazawa and Hirokazu Odaka and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Kento Torigoe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01298},
year = {2020}
}
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Submitted to the Proceedings of the SPIE for Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020