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BurstCube: Concept, Performance, and Status

The first simultaneous detection of a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) with a gravitational-wave (GW) signal ushered in a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In order to increase the number of SGRB-GW simultaneous detections, we need full sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 Jacob R. Smith , Michael S. Briggs , Alessandro Bruno , Eric Burns , Regina Caputo , Brad Cenko , Antonino Cucchiara , Georgia de Nolfo , Sean Griffin , Lorraine Hanlon , Dieter H. Hartmann , Michelle Hui , Alyson Joens , Carolyn Kierans , Dan Kocevski , John Krizmanic , Amy Lien , Sheila McBreen , Julie E. McEnery , Lee Mitchell , David Morris , David Murphy , Jeremy S. Perkins , Judy Racusin , Peter Shawhan , Teresa Tatoli , Alexey Uliyanov , Sarah Walsh , Colleen Wilson-Hodge

World-leading science with SPIRou - the nIR spectropolarimeter / high-precision velocimeter for CFHT

SPIRou is a near-infrared (nIR) spectropolarimeter / velocimeter proposed as a new-generation instrument for CFHT. SPIRou aims in particular at becoming world-leader on two forefront science topics, (i) the quest for habitable Earth-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 X. Delfosse , J. -F. Donati , D. Kouach , G. Hébrard , R. Doyon , E. Artigau , F. Bouchy , I. Boisse , A. S. Brun , P. Hennebelle , T. Widemann , J. Bouvier , X. Bonfils , J. Morin , C. Moutou , F. Pepe , S. Udry , J. -D. do Nascimento , S. H. P. Alencar , B. V. Castilho , E. Martioli , S. Y. Wang , P. Figueira , N. C. Santos , the SPIRou Science Team

Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Jakub Ripa , Andras Pal , Masanori Ohno , Norbert Werner , Laszlo Meszaros , Balazs Csak , Marianna Dafcikova , Vladimir Daniel , Juraj Dudas , Marcel Frajt , Peter Hanak , Jan Hudec , Milan Junas , Jakub Kapus , Miroslav Kasal , Martin Koleda , Robert Laszlo , Pavol Lipovsky , Filip Munz , Maksim Rezenov , Miroslav Smelko , Petr Svoboda , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Martin Topinka , Tomas Urbanec , Jean-Paul Breuer , Teruaki Enoto , Zsolt Frei , Yasushi Fukazawa , Gabor Galgoczi , Filip Hroch , Yuto Ichinohe , Laszlo Kiss , Hiroto Matake , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Hirokazu Odaka , Helen Poon , Nagomi Uchida , Yuusuke Uchida

Estimation of the detected background by the future gamma-ray transient mission CAMELOT

This study presents a background estimation for the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT), which is a proposed fleet of nanosatellites for the all-sky monitoring and timing based localization of gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-01 J. Ripa , G. Galgóczi , N. Werner , A. Pál , M. Ohno , L. Mészáros , T. Mizuno , N. Tarcai , K. Torigoe , N. Uchida , Y. Fukazawa , H. Takahashi , K. Nakazawa , N. Hirade , K. Hirose , S. Hisadomi , T. Enoto , H. Odaka , Y. Ichinohe , Z. Frei , L. Kiss

On-ground calibrations of the GRID-02 gamma-ray detector

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) are a space project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era using multiple detectors on-board CubeSats. The second GRID detector, GRID-02, was launched in 2020.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Huaizhong Gao , Dongxin Yang , Jiaxing Wen , Xutao Zheng , Ming Zeng , Jirong Cang , Weihe Zeng , Xiaofan Pan , Qimin Zhou , Yihui Liu , Hua Feng , Binbin Zhang , Zhi Zeng , Yang Tian , GRID Collaboration

The Photo-z Infrared Telescope (PIRT) -- a space instrument for rapid follow up of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts and electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events

The Photo-z InfraRed Telescope (PIRT) is an instrument on the Gamow Explorer, currently proposed for a NASA Astrophysics Medium Explorer. PIRT works in tandem with a companion wide-field instrument, the Lobster Eye X-ray Telescope (LEXT),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 M. Seiffert , A. Balady , T. -C. Chang , R. Dyer , H. Fausey , S. Guiriec , M. Hart , R. O. Morris , J. I. Rodriguez , P. Roming , M. Rud , D. Russell , R. Sambruna , R. Terrile , V. Torossian , A. J. van der Horst , N. E. White , P. Willems , A. Woodmansee , E. T. Young

A next generation Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO-100) for IR/optical observations of the rise phase of gamma-ray bursts

The Swift Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) observatory responds to GRB triggers with optical observations in ~ 100 s, but cannot respond faster than ~ 60 s. While some ground-based telescopes respond quickly, the number of sub-60 s detections remains…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. Grossan , I. H. Park , S. Ahmad , K. B. Ahn , P. Barrillon , S. Brandt , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , A. J. Castro-Tirado , P. Chen , H. S. Choi , Y. J. Choi , P. Connell , S. Dagoret-Campagne , C. De La Taille , C. Eyles , I. Hermann , M. -H. A. Huang , A. Jung , S. Jeong , J. E. Kim , M. Kim , S. -W. Kim , Y. W. Kim , J. Lee , H. Lim , E. V. Linder , T. -C. Liu , N. Lund , K. W. Min , G. W. Na , J. W. Nam , M. I. Panasyuk , J. Ripa , V. Reglero , J. M. Rodrigo , G. F. Smoot , J. E. Suh , S. Svertilov , N. Vedenkin , M. -Z. Wang , I. Yashin , M. H. Zhao

The SPace-based InterFerometer Feasibility (SPIFF) Project: Enabling Future High-Resolution Astronomy Across the EM Spectrum

A plethora of astronomical science cases can only be achieved with high angular resolution observations, and we can expect the number of these to grow as astronomers are constrained by the size limitations of single-aperture space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Berke Vow Ricketti , Victoria Yankelevich , Chris Benson , Renske Smit , Sebastian Kamann , Ettore Pedretti , Sebastian Marino , Gerard van Belle , Stephen Eales , Chris Bee , Mark Wyatt , Matthew Smith , Tim D. Pearce , Emily Williams , Rebecca Harwin , David Pearson , Andy Vick , Giorgio Savini , Taro Matsuo , Hiroshi Matsuo , Locke Spencer , David T. Leisawitz

Spectroscopic characterisation of CARMENES target candidates from FEROS, CAFE and HRS high-resolution spectra

CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs) started a new planet survey on M-dwarfs in January this year. The new high-resolution spectrographs are operating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 V. M. Passegger , A. Reiners , S. V. Jeffers , S. Wende , P. Schöfer , P. J. Amado , J. A. Caballero , D. Montes , R. Mundt , I. Ribas , A. Quirrenbach , the CARMENES Consortium

Design of a CZT Gamma-Camera for GRB and Fast Transient Follow-up: a Wide-Field-Monitor for the EDGE Mission

The success of the SWIFT/BAT and INTEGRAL missions has definitely opened a new window for follow-up and deep study of the transient gamma-ray sky. This now appears as the access key to important progresses in the area of cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 L. Natalucci , M. Feroci , E. Quadrini , P. Ubertini , L. Piro , J. W. den Herder , D. Barret , L. Amati , C. Budtz-Jorgensen , E. Caroli , S. Di Cosimo , M. Frutti , C. Labanti , F. Monzani , J. M. Poulsen , L. Nicolini , A. Stevoli

HerMES: The Submillimeter Spectral Energy Distributions of Herschel/SPIRE-Detected Galaxies

We present colours of sources detected with the Herschel/SPIRE instrument in deep extragalactic surveys of the Lockman Hole, Spitzer-FLS, and GOODS-N fields in three photometric bands at 250, 350 and 500 micrometers. We compare these with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Schulz , C. P. Pearson , D. L. Clements , B. Altieri , A. Amblard , V. Arumugam , R. Auld , H. Aussel , T. Babbedge , A. Blain , J. Bock , A. Boselli , V. Buat , D. Burgarella , N. Castro-Rodriguez , A. Cava , P. Chanial , A. Conley , L. Conversi , A. Cooray , C. D. Dowell , E. Dwek , S. Eales , D. Elbaz , M. Fox , A. Franceschini , W. Gear , E. Giovannoli , J. Glenn , M. Griffin , M. Halpern , E. Hatziminaoglou , E. Ibar , K. Isaak , R. J. Ivison , G. Lagache , L. Levenson , N. Lu , S. Madden , B. Maffei , G. Mainetti , L. Marchetti , G. Marsden , A. M. J. Mortier , H. T. Nguyen , B. O'Halloran , S. J. Oliver , A. Omont , M. J. Page , P. Panuzzo , A. Papageorgiou , I. Perez Fournon , M. Pohlen , N. Rangwala , J. Rawlings , G. Raymond , D. Rigopoulou , D. Rizzo , I. G. Roseboom , M. Rowan-Robinson , M. Sanchez Portal , Douglas Scott , N. Seymour , D. L. Shupe , A. J. Smith , J. A. Stevens , M. Symeonidis , M. Trichas , K. E. Tugwell , M. Vaccari , E. Valiante , I. Valtchanov , L. Vigroux , L. Wang , R. Ward , G. Wright , C. K. Xu , M. Zemcov

GRBAlpha: A 1U CubeSat mission for validating timing-based gamma-ray burst localization

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 András Pál , Masanori Ohno , László Mészáros , Norbert Werner , Jakub Řípa , Marcel Frajt , Naoyoshi Hirade , Ján Hudec , Jakub Kapuš , Martin Koleda , Robert Laszlo , Pavol Lipovský , Hiroto Matake , Miroslav Šmelko , Nagomi Uchida , Balázs Csák , Teruaki Enoto , Zsolt Frei , Yasushi Fukazawa , Gábor Galgóczi , Kengo Hirose , Syohei Hisadomihi , Yuto Ichinohe , László L. Kiss , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Hirokazu Odaka , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Kento Torigoe

BlackCAT CubeSat: A Soft X-ray Sky Monitor, Transient Finder, and Burst Detector for High-energy and Multimessenger Astrophysics

Here we present the conceptual design of a wide field imager onboard a 6U class CubeSat platform for the study of GRB prompt and afterglow emission and detection of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in soft X-rays. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , Abraham D. Falcone , David N. Burrows , Derek B. Fox , David Palmer

Gamma-Ray Burst observations by the high-energy charged particle detector on board the CSES-01 satellite between 2019 and 2021

In this paper we report the detection of five strong Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the High-Energy Particle Detector (HEPD-01) mounted on board the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01), operational since 2018 on a Sun-synchronous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-26 Francesco Palma , Matteo Martucci , Coralie Neubüser , Alessandro Sotgiu , Francesco Maria Follega , Pietro Ubertini , Angela Bazzano , James Rodi , Roberto Ammendola , Davide Badoni , Simona Bartocci , Roberto Battiston , Stefania Beolè , Igor Bertello , William Jerome Burger , Donatella Campana , Antonio Cicone , Piero Cipollone , Silvia Coli , Livio Conti , Andrea Contin , Marco Cristoforetti , Giulia D'Angelo , Fabrizio De Angelis , Cinzia De Donato , Cristian De Santis , Piero Diego , Andrea Di Luca , Emiliano Fiorenza , Giuseppe Gebbia , Roberto Iuppa , Alessandro Lega , Mauro Lolli , Bruno Martino , Giuseppe Masciantonio , Matteo Mergè , Marco Mese , Alfredo Morbidini , Francesco Nozzoli , Fabrizio Nuccilli , Alberto Oliva , Giuseppe Osteria , Federico Palmonari , Beatrice Panico , Emanuele Papini , Alexandra Parmentier , Stefania Perciballi , Francesco Perfetto , Alessio Perinelli , Piergiorgio Picozza , Mirko Piersanti , Michele Pozzato , Gianmaria Rebustini , Dario Recchiuti , Ester Ricci , Marco Ricci , Sergio Bruno Ricciarini , Andrea Russi , Zouleikha Sahnoun , Umberto Savino , Valentina Scotti , Xuhui Shen , Roberta Sparvoli , Silvia Tofani , Nello Vertolli , Veronica Vilona , Vincenzo Vitale , Ugo Zannoni , Zhima Zeren , Simona Zoffoli , Paolo Zuccon

Multi-Instrument Search for Gamma-Ray Counterpart of X-ray Transients detected by EP/WXT

As a soft X-ray imager with unprecedentedly large field of view, EP/WXT has detected many (fast) X-ray transients, whose nature is very intriguing. Whether there is gamma-ray counterpart for the X-ray transient provides important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-09 Yan-Qiu Zhang , Wang-Chen Xue , Jin-Peng Zhang , Ce Cai , Shao-Lin Xiong , Cheng-Kui Li , Yuan Liu , Chen-Wei Wang , Hao-Xuan Guo , Shuo Xiao , Wen-Jun Tan , Chao Zheng , Jia-Cong Liu , Sheng-Lun Xie , Peng Zhang , Wen-Long Zhang , Yue Wang , Zheng-Hang Yu , Yang-Zhao Ren , Ping Wang , Yue Huang , Xiao-Bo Li , Xiao-Yun Zhao , Shi-Jie Zheng , Zhen Zhang , Shu-Xu Yi , Li-Ming Song , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Design and Performance of a Universal SiPM Readout System for X- and Gamma-Ray Missions

The advent of both multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics over the last decade has seen a large interest in the development of small-scale, cheap, and robust gamma-ray detectors. This has been further encouraged by the availability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Merlin Kole , Nicolas De Angelis , Nicolas Produit , Philipp Azzarello , Franck Cadoux , Yannick Favre , Jochen Greiner , Vishal Kumar , Johannes Hulsman , Sebastian Kusyk , Hancheng Li , Dominik Rybka , Jerome Stauffer , Adrien Stil , Jianchao Sun , Jan Swakon , Damian Wrobel , Xin Wu

HERMES at Mercator, competitive high-resolution spectroscopy with a small telescope

HERMES, a fibre-fed high-resolution (R=85000) echelle spectrograph with good stability and excellent throughput, is the work-horse instrument of the 1.2-m Mercator telescope on La Palma. HERMES targets building up time series of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gert Raskin , Hans Van Winckel

The simulation framework of the timing-based localization for future all-sky gamma-ray observations with a fleet of Cubesats

The timing-based localization, which utilize the triangulation principle with the different arrival time of gamma-ray photons, with a fleet of Cubesats is a unique and powerful solution for the future all-sky gamma-ray observation, which is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-18 Masanori Ohno , Norbert Werner , Andras Pal , Laszlo Meszaros , Yuto Ichinohe , Jakub Ripa , Martin Topinka , Filip Munz , Gabor Galgoczi , Yasushi Fukazawa , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Nagomi Uchida , Kento Torigoe , Naoyoshi Hirade , Kengo Hirose , Hiroto Matake , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Syohei Hisadomi , Hirokazu Odaka , Teruaki Enoto , Jan Hudec , Jakub Kapus , Martin Koleda , Robert Laszlo

GRBAlpha, VZLUSAT-2 and GRBBeta -- GRB observations with CubeSats

Results from GRBAlpha, VZLUSAT-2 and GRBBeta CubeSats and their on-board gamma-ray detectors for monitoring transients are summarised in this article. GRBAlpha was a 1U CubeSat launched in March 2021 to a 550 km altitude polar orbit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Jakub Ripa , Marianna Dafcikova , Andras Pal , Norbert Werner , Masanori Ohno , Laszlo Meszaros , Filip Munz , Balazs Csak , Gabor Galgoczi , Nikola Husarikova , Tomas Vitek , Pavel Kosik , Michaela Duriskova , Martin Kolar , Lea Szakszonova , Michal Pazderka , Filip Hroch , Martin Topinka , Yasushi Fukazawa , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Masato Yokota , Jean-Paul Breuer , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Hirokazu Odaka , Yuto Ichinohe , Peter Hanak , Miroslav smelko , Ivo Vertat , Tomas Urbanec , Ales Povalac , Miroslav Kasal , Jakub Kapus , Jan Hudec , Marcel Frajt , Maksim Rezenov , Vladimir Daniel , Petr Svoboda , Juraj Dudas , Martin Sabol , Robert Laszlo , Martin Koleda , Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Tsung-Che Liu , Chih-Hsun Lin , Chin-Ping Hu , Che-Chih Tsao , Kaustubha Sen , Chih-En Wu , Aaron Tohuvavohu , Suresh Sivanandam , Mark Barnet

VAST - a real-time pipeline for detecting radio transients and variables on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a next generation radio telescope currently under construction in Western Australia. The fast survey speed and wide field of view make it an ideal instrument for blind transients searches. The ASKAP…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-17 Jay Banyer , Tara Murphy , the VAST Collaboration