A-STAR: The All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter
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posted on 2019-10-23, 14:57 authored by JP Osborne, P O'Brien, P Evans, GW Fraser, A Martindale, J-L Atteia, B Cordier, S MereghettiThe small mission A-STAR (All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter) aims to locate the X-ray counterparts to ALIGO and other gravitational wave detector sources, to study the poorly-understood low luminosity gamma-ray bursts, and to find a wide variety of transient high-energy source types, A-STAR will survey the entire available sky twice per 24 hours. The payload consists of a coded mask instrument, Owl, operating in the novel low energy band 4−150 keV, and a sensitive wide-field focussing soft X-ray instrument, Lobster, working over 0.15−5 keV. A-STAR will trigger on ~100 GRBs/yr, rapidly distributing their locations.
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We thank the 29 Co-Is and 62 associate scientists for their valuable input to the A-STAR proposal. JPO & PE acknowledge the support of the UK Space Agency.
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EAS Publications Series, 2013, 61, 625-631Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and AstronomySource
Fall Gamma Ray Burst Symposium on 15 years of Gamma-Ray Bursts afterglows: Progenitors, Environments and Host Galaxies from the Nearby to the Early Universe, Inst Astrofisica Andalucia & Dept Syst Engn & Automat, Malaga, SPAINVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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EDP Sciences, European Astronomical Society (EAS)issn
1633-4760isbn
978-2-7598-1002-4Copyright date
2013Available date
2019-10-23Publisher DOI
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https://www.eas-journal.org/articles/eas/abs/2013/03/eas1361099/eas1361099.htmlEditors
CastroTirado, AJ;Gorosabel, J;Park, IHTemporal coverage: start date
2012-10-08Temporal coverage: end date
2012-10-12Language
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