Proposed Next Generation GRB Mission: EXIST
Abstract
A next generation Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) mission to follow the upcoming Swift mission is described. The proposed Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope, EXIST, would yield the limiting (practical) GRB trigger sensitivity, broad-band spectral and temporal response, and spatial resolution over a wide field. It would provide high resolution spectra and locations for GRBs detected at GeV energies with GLAST. Together with the next generation missions Constellation-X, NGST and LISA and optical-survey (LSST) telescopes, EXIST would enable GRBs to be used as probes of the early universe and the first generation of stars. EXIST alone would give ~10-50" positions (long or short GRBs), approximate redshifts from lags, and constrain physics of jets, orphan afterglows, neutrinos and SGRs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205323,
title = {Proposed Next Generation GRB Mission: EXIST},
author = {J. Grindlay and N. Gehrels and F. Harrison and R. Blandford and G. Fishman and C. Kouveliotou and D. H. Hartmann and S. Woosley and W. Craig and J. Hong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205323},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures. Presented at Woods Hole GRB Conf. (2001); to appear in AIP Conf. Proc