Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session Q09: Multimessenger MiniSymposium
10:45 AM–12:33 PM,
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 11
Sponsoring
Units:
DAP DPF
Chair: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University
Abstract: Q09.00007 : BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
12:21 PM–12:33 PM
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Presenter:
Alyson Joens
(George Washington University)
Authors:
Alyson Joens
(George Washington University)
Jeremy S Perkins
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Judith L Racusin
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Michael S Briggs
(University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Georgia A de Nolfo
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Jacob R Smith
(University of Maryland, College Park)
Regina M Caputo
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Sean Griffin
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, College Park)
John F Krizmanic
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Julie E McEnery
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Eric Burns
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Peter Sven Shawhan
(University of Maryland, College Park)
David Morris
(University of the Virgin Islands)
Daniel Kocevski
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Colleen Wilson-Hodge
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Dieter Hartmann
(Clemson University)
Michelle Hui
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
The first simultaneous detection of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) with a gravitational-wave (GW) signal provided direct proof that binary neutron star mergers are a progenitor of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) and propelled astronomy into the multi-messenger era. In order to further study the connection between gravitational waves and sGRBs, and thus enable multi-messenger science, we must increase the number of sGRB-GW simultaneous detections. To accomplish this we require full sky coverage in the gamma-ray regime. BurstCube aims to expand sky coverage in order to detect and localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). BurstCube is comprised of 4 Cesium Iodide scintillators coupled to arrays of Silicon photo-multipliers on a 6U bus and is sensitive to gamma-rays between 50 keV and 1MeV, the ideal energy range for GRB prompt emission. BurstCube will complement current observatories, such as Swift and Fermi, in the detection of GRBs as well as provide astronomical context to gravitational wave events detected by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. BurstCube is currently in its development phase with an expected launch date of ~2022.
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