BurstCube: a CubeSat for gravitational wave counterparts

Jeremy S. Perkins; Isabella Brewer; Michael S. Briggs; Alessandro Bruno; Eric Burns; Regina Caputo; Brad Cenko; Antonino Cucchiara; Georgia De Nolfo; Jeff Dumonthier; Sean Griffin; Lorraine Hanlon; Dieter H. Hartmann; Boyan Hristov; Michelle Hui; Alyson Joens; Carolyn Kierans; Marc Kippen; Dan Kocevski; John Krizmanic; Sibasish Laha; Amy Lien; Israel Martinez-Castellanos; Sheila McBreen; Julie E. McEnery; J. G. Mitchell; Lee Mitchell; David Morris; David Murphy; Judith L. Racusin; Oliver Roberts; Peter Shawhan; Jacob Smith; George Suarez; Teresa Tatoli; Alexey Uliyanov; Carlos Vazquez; Sarah Walsh; Colleen Wilson-Hodge

doi:10.1117/12.2562796

13 December 2020 BurstCube: a CubeSat for gravitational wave counterparts

Jeremy S. Perkins, Isabella Brewer, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno, Eric Burns, Regina Caputo, Brad Cenko, Antonino Cucchiara, Georgia De Nolfo, Jeff Dumonthier, Sean Griffin, Lorraine Hanlon, Dieter H. Hartmann, Boyan Hristov, Michelle Hui, Alyson Joens, Carolyn Kierans, Marc Kippen, Dan Kocevski, John Krizmanic, Sibasish Laha, Amy Lien, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Sheila McBreen, Julie E. McEnery, J. G. Mitchell, Lee Mitchell, David Morris, David Murphy, Judith L. Racusin, Oliver Roberts, Peter Shawhan, Jacob Smith, George Suarez, Teresa Tatoli, Alexey Uliyanov, Carlos Vazquez, Sarah Walsh, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

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Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 114441X (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562796
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Abstract

BurstCube aims to expand sky coverage in order to detect, localize, and rapidly disseminate information about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). BurstCube is a ’6U’ CubeSat with an instrument comprised of 4 Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillators coupled to arrays of Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) and will be sensitive to gamma-rays between 50 keV and 1 MeV. BurstCube will assist current observatories, such as Swift and Fermi, in the detection of GRBs as well as provide astronomical context to gravitational wave (GW) events detected by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. BurstCube is currently in its development phase with a launch readiness date in early 2022.

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Jeremy S. Perkins, Isabella Brewer, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno, Eric Burns, Regina Caputo, Brad Cenko, Antonino Cucchiara, Georgia De Nolfo, Jeff Dumonthier, Sean Griffin, Lorraine Hanlon, Dieter H. Hartmann, Boyan Hristov, Michelle Hui, Alyson Joens, Carolyn Kierans, Marc Kippen, Dan Kocevski, John Krizmanic, Sibasish Laha, Amy Lien, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Sheila McBreen, Julie E. McEnery, J. G. Mitchell, Lee Mitchell, David Morris, David Murphy, Judith L. Racusin, Oliver Roberts, Peter Shawhan, Jacob Smith, George Suarez, Teresa Tatoli, Alexey Uliyanov, Carlos Vazquez, Sarah Walsh, and Colleen Wilson-Hodge "BurstCube: a CubeSat for gravitational wave counterparts", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114441X (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562796

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