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The Ground Wide Angle Camera Network (GWAC-N) is a robotic telescope network. It consists of ten wide-field core telescopes (GWAC-A) and two 60cm narrow-field rapid follow-up telescopes (GWAC-F60A/B). The primary scientific goal of GWAC-N…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Xu-hui Han , Pin-pin Zhang , Yu-jie Xiao , Li-ping Xin , Ruo-song Zhang , Lei Huang , Xiao-meng Lu , Hong-bo Cai , Yang Xu , Wen-long Dong , Hua-li Li , Ya-tong Zheng , Jian-yan Wei

The Ground-based Wide-Angle Cameras array (GWAC) necessitates the integration of over 100 hardware devices, more than 100 servers, and upwards of 2500 software modules, all synchronized within a 3-second imaging cycle. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Y. Xu , G. W. Li , J. Wang , L. P. Xin , H. B. Cai , X. H. Han , X. M. Lu , L. Huang , J. Y. Wei

We present the SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor) mission, that is being developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and the French Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Gotz , J. Paul , S. Basa , J. Wei , S. N. Zhang , J. -L. Atteia , D. Barret , B. Cordier , A. Claret , J. Deng , X. Fan , J. Y. Hu , M. Huang , P. Mandrou , S. Mereghetti , Y. Qiu , B. Wu

We present the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), a future satellite mission for Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies, developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-31 S. Schanne , J. Paul , J. Wei , S. -N. Zhang , S. Basa , J. -L. Atteia , D. Barret , A. Claret , B. Cordier , F. Daigne , P. Evans , G. Fraser , O. Godet , D. Götz , P. Mandrou , J. Osborne

In this contribution, the first results of HAWC, searching for VHE gamma-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) reported by $\mathit{Swift}$, are presented. The HAWC gamma-ray observatory is operating in central Mexico at an altitude of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-02 Dirk Lennarz , Ignacio Taboada

GWAC will have been built an integrated FOV of 5,000 $degree^2$ and have already built 1,800 square $degree^2$. The limit magnitude of a 10-second exposure image in the moonless night is 16R. In each observation night, GWAC produces about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Yang Xu , Liping Xin , Xuhui Han , Hongbo Cai , Lei Huang , Huali Li , Xiaomeng Lu , Yulei Qiu , Chao Wu , Guangwei Li , Jing Wang , Jianyan Wei , Maohai Huang

We present the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor mission (SVOM) decided by the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) and the French Space Agency (CNES). The mission which is designed to detect about 80 Gamma-Ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Basa , J. Wei , J. Paul , S. N. Zhang

The GWAC-N is an observation network composed of multi-aperture and multi-field of view robotic optical telescopes. The main instruments are the GWAC-A. Besides, several robotic optical telescopes with narrower field of views provide fast…

We briefly present the science capabilities, the instruments, the operations, and the expected performance of the SVOM mission. SVOM (Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is a Chinese-French space mission dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-11 B. Cordier , J. Wei , J. -L. Atteia , S. Basa , A. Claret , F. Daigne , J. Deng , Y. Dong , O. Godet , A. Goldwurm , D. Götz , X. Han , A. Klotz , C. Lachaud , J. Osborne , Y. Qiu , S. Schanne , B. Wu , J. Wang , C Wu , L. Xin , B. Zhang , S. -N. Zhang

GAW, acronym for Gamma Air Watch, is a path-finder experiment to test the feasibility of a new generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes that join high flux sensitivity with large field of view capability. GAW is conceived as…

The SVOM (Space-based Variable Objects Monitor) mission, launched into low Earth orbit on 22 June 2024, is a French-Chinese multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of the transient sky. Inspired by the Neil Gehrels Swift…

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) mission is dedicated to the detection, localization and broad-band study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and other high-energy transient phenomena. The Gamma Ray Monitor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Yongwei Dong , Bobing Wu , Yanguo Li , Yongjie Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang

The Sino-French space mission SVOM is mainly designed to detect, localize and follow-up Gamma-Ray Bursts and other high-energy transients. The satellite, to be launched mid 2023, embarks two wide-field gamma-ray instruments and two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 J-L. Atteia , B. Cordier , J. Wei

The X and Gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs is foreseen to be launched on a low Earth orbit (h=630 km, i=30 degrees) aboard the SVOM satellite (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor), a French-Chinese mission with Italian…

The Chinese Ground Follow-up Telescope (C-GFT) is an optical facility upgraded to support the Space Variable Objects Monitor mission (\textit{SVOM}). Located at the Jilin Observation Station, it is capable of rapidly identifying and…

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its large field of view and high livetime, HAWC is well-suited…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-02 HAWC Collaboration , A. U. Abeysekara , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , B. M. Baughman , N. Bautista-Elivar , E. Belmont , S. Y. BenZvi , D. Berley , M. Bonilla Rosales , J. Braun , R. A. Caballero-Lopez , K. S. Caballero-Mora , A. Carramiñana , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , E. de la Fuente , C. De León , T. DeYoung , R. Diaz Hernandez , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , A. Fernandez , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , A. Galindo , F. Garfias , L. X. González , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , V. Grabski , M. Gussert , Z. Hampel-Arias , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Imran , A. Iriarte , P. Karn , D. Kieda , G. J. Kunde , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , E. C. Linares , J. T. Linnemann , M. Longo , R. Luna-GarcIa , A. Marinelli , H. Martinez , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. J. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , J. Nava , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , R. Noriega-Papaqui , T. Oceguera-Becerra , B. Patricelli , R. Pelayo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , J. Pretz , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , H. Salazar , F. Salesa , F. E. Sanchez , A. Sandoval , E. Santos , M. Schneider , S. Silich , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , K. Sparks , R. W. Springer , I. Taboada , P. A. Toale , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , G. B. Yodh , P. W. Younk , D. Zaborov , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

The study of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a key field to expand our understanding of several astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. SVOM is a Chinese-French Mission which will permit to detect and rapidly locate GRBs, in particular those…

The ground-based wide-angle camera array (GWAC) generates millions of single frame alerts per night. After the complicated and elaborate filters by multiple methods, a couple of dozens of candidates are still needed to be confirmed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yang Xu , Liping Xin , Jing Wang , Xuhui Han , Yulei Qiu , Maohai Huang , Jianyan Wei

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is a powerful tool to study cosmic-ray physics, providing a diagnostic of the high-energy processes at work in the most extreme astrophysical accelerators of the universe. Ground-based gamma-ray detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Ulisses Barres de Almeida , Martin Tluczykont
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