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BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts

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arxiv 1708.09292 v1 pith:6ZRPDI7I submitted 2017-08-28 astro-ph.IM astro-ph.HE

Judith Racusin , Jeremy S. Perkins , Michael S. Briggs , Georgia de Nolfo , John Krizmanic , Regina Caputo , Julie E. McEnery , Peter Shawhan
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David Morris Valerie Connaughton Dan Kocevski Colleen Wilson-Hodge Michelle Hui Lee Mitchell Sheila McBreen
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BurstCube will detect long GRBs, attributed to the collapse of massive stars, short GRBs (sGRBs), resulting from binary neutron star mergers, as well as other gamma-ray transients in the energy range 10-1000 keV. sGRBs are of particular interest because they are predicted to be the counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) sources soon to be detectable by LIGO/Virgo. BurstCube contains 4 CsI scintillators coupled with arrays of compact low-power Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) on a 6U Dellingr bus, a flagship modular platform that is easily modifiable for a variety of 6U CubeSat architectures. BurstCube will complement existing facilities such as Swift and Fermi in the short term, and provide a means for GRB detection, localization, and characterization in the interim time before the next generation future gamma-ray mission flies, as well as space-qualify SiPMs and test technologies for future use on larger gamma-ray missions. The ultimate configuration of BurstCube is to have a set of $\sim10$ BurstCubes to provide all-sky coverage to GRBs for substantially lower cost than a full-scale mission.

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