A compact instrument for gamma-ray burst detection on a CubeSat platform I: Design drivers and expected performance [0.03%]
用于CubeSat平台上的伽玛暴检测的紧凑型仪器I:设计驱动和预期性能
David Murphy,Alexey Ulyanov,Sheila McBreen et al.
David Murphy et al.
The Educational Irish Research Satellite 1 (EIRSAT-1) is a 2U CubeSat being developed under ESA's Fly Your Satellite! programme. The project has many aspects, which are primarily educational, but also include space qualification of new dete...
Balloon flight test of a CeBr3 detector with silicon photomultiplier readout [0.03%]
具有硅光电倍增管读数的CeBr3探测器的气球飞行测试
David Murphy,Joseph Mangan,Alexei Ulyanov et al.
David Murphy et al.
Recent advances in silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology and new scintillator materials allow for the creation of compact high-performance gamma-ray detectors which can be deployed on small low-cost satellites. A small number of such sa...
Rainer Kaltenbaek,Antonio Acin,Laszlo Bacsardi et al.
Rainer Kaltenbaek et al.
Recently, the European Commission supported by many European countries has announced large investments towards the commercialization of quantum technology (QT) to address and mitigate some of the biggest challenges facing today's digital er...
Bringing high spatial resolution to the far-infrared: A giant leap for astrophysics [0.03%]
远红外高空间分辨率观测技术:天体物理学的一大步
Hendrik Linz,Henrik Beuther,Maryvonne Gerin et al.
Hendrik Linz et al.
The far-infrared (FIR) regime is one of the wavelength ranges where no astronomical data with sub-arcsecond spatial resolution exist. None of the medium-term satellite projects like SPICA, Millimetron, or the Origins Space Telescope will re...
The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: A summary of discoveries waiting in the decihertz range [0.03%]
引力波天文学中缺失的一环:关于等待在十 millisec 区间的发现的总结
Manuel Arca Sedda,Christopher P L Berry,Karan Jani et al.
Manuel Arca Sedda et al.
Since 2015 the gravitational-wave observations of LIGO and Virgo have transformed our understanding of compact-object binaries. In the years to come, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as LIGO, Virgo, and their successors wi...
Probing the nature of black holes: Deep in the mHz gravitational-wave sky [0.03%]
探究黑洞的性质:深入毫赫兹引力波天空
Vishal Baibhav,Leor Barack,Emanuele Berti et al.
Vishal Baibhav et al.
Black holes are unique among astrophysical sources: they are the simplest macroscopic objects in the Universe, and they are extraordinary in terms of their ability to convert energy into electromagnetic and gravitational radiation. Our capa...
Kottamia Faint Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter (KFISP): opto-mechanical design, software control and performance analysis [0.03%]
Kottamia微光成像偏振计(KFISP):光学机械设计、软件控制和性能分析
Yosry A Azzam,F I Y Elnagahy,Gamal B Ali et al.
Yosry A Azzam et al.
In this paper we describe the Kottamia Faint Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter (KFISP) that has been recently developed and designed to be mounted at the Cassegrain focus of the 1.88 m telescope at Kottamia Astronomical Observatory (KAO), Egypt. ...
Peering into the dark (ages) with low-frequency space interferometers: Using the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the infant universe to probe fundamental (Astro)physics [0.03%]
利用低频空间干涉仪探测宇宙黑暗(时代):用婴儿宇宙中性氢的21厘米信号来探究基本(Astro)物理
Léon V E Koopmans,Rennan Barkana,Mark Bentum et al.
Léon V E Koopmans et al.
The Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn are largely unexplored windows on the infant Universe (z ~ 200-10). Observations of the redshifted 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen can provide valuable new insight into fundamental physics and astrophysics durin...
Camilla Danielski,Anna Brucalassi,Serena Benatti et al.
Camilla Danielski et al.
The Ariel mission will characterise the chemical and thermal properties of the atmospheres of about a thousand exoplanets transiting their host star(s). The observation of such a large sample of planets will allow to deepen our understandin...
Experimental evaluation of complete safe coordination of astrobots for Sloan Digital Sky Survey V [0.03%]
斯隆数字天空调查五代完整安全的自主机器人协调实验评测
Matin Macktoobian,Ricardo Araújo,Loïc Grossen et al.
Matin Macktoobian et al.
The data throughput of massive spectroscopic surveys in the course of each observation is directly coordinated with the number of optical fibers which reach their target. In this paper, we evaluate the safety and the performance of the astr...