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Transient detection capabilities of small satellite gamma‐ray detectors
Author(s) -
Bagoly Zsolt,
Balázs Lajos G.,
Galgóczi Gábor,
Ohno Masanori,
Pál András,
Řípa Jakub,
Tóth L. Viktor,
Werner Norbert
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.201913675
Subject(s) - detector , fermi gamma ray space telescope , physics , transient (computer programming) , satellite , gamma ray , photon , event (particle physics) , observable , optics , computer science , astrophysics , astronomy , operating system , quantum mechanics
The new, small satellite‐based gamma‐ray detectors, like Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and Localizing Transients, will provide a new way to detect gamma transients in the multimessenger era. The efficiency and the detection capabilities of such a system will be compared with current missions, for example, Fermi Gamma‐ray Burst Monitor (GBM). We used the Fermi GBM's observed short gamma‐ray burst light curves aggregated from observed discrete detector event for the simulation input. The corresponding direction‐dependent detector response matrices were used to generate photon counts and light curves around a simulated event, enabling to determine the statistics. This method can be used in the future for trigger algorithm and detector system development, and also to estimate the efficiency of the data analysis pipeline regarding the observable gamma‐ray bursts' parameters as well as other electromagnetic transients.