GRID: a student project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era

doi:10.1007/s10686-019-09636-w

	GRID: a student project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era
	Wen, Jiaxing 1,2,3; Long, Xiangyun 4,5; Zheng, Xutao 1,2; An, Yu 6; Cai, Zhengyang 4,5; Cang, Jirong 1,2; Che, Yuepeng 7; Chen, Changyu 1,2; Chen, Liangjun 6; Chen, Qianjun 1,2
刊名	EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY
	2019-08-01
卷号	48 期号:1 页码:77-95
关键词	Gamma-ray bursts Gravitational waves Scintillation detector SiPM CubeSat
ISSN号	0922-6435
DOI	10.1007/s10686-019-09636-w
通讯作者	Feng, Hua(hfeng@tsinghua.edu.cn) ; Zeng, Ming(mingzeng@tsinghua.edu.cn) ; Zhang, Bin-Bin(bbzhang@nju.edu.cn)
英文摘要	The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) is a space mission concept dedicated to monitoring the transient gamma-ray sky in the energy range from 10 keV to 2 MeV using scintillation detectors onboard CubeSats in low Earth orbits. The primary targets of GRID are the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the local universe. The scientific goal of GRID is, in synergy with ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as LIGO and VIRGO, to accumulate a sample of GRBs associated with the merger of two compact stars and study jets and related physics of those objects. It also involves observing and studying other gamma-ray transients such as long GRBs, soft gamma-ray repeaters, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, and solar flares. With multiple CubeSats in various orbits, GRID is unaffected by the Earth occultation and serves as a full-time and all-sky monitor. Assuming a horizon of 200 Mpc for ground-based GW detectors, we expect to see a few associated GW-GRB events per year. With about 10 CubeSats in operation, GRID is capable of localizing a faint GRB like 170817A with a 90% error radius of about 10 degrees, through triangulation and flux modulation. GRID is proposed and developed by students, with considerable contribution from undergraduate students, and will remain operated as a student project in the future. The current GRID collaboration involves more than 20 institutes and keeps growing. On August 29th, the first GRID detector onboard a CubeSat was launched into a Sun-synchronous orbit and is currently under test.
WOS关键词	NEUTRON-STAR ; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPART ; KILONOVA ; BURSTS ; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS ; PERFORMANCE ; EMISSION
WOS研究方向	Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000481758700005
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/28071]
专题	中国科学院紫金山天文台
通讯作者	Feng, Hua; Zeng, Ming; Zhang, Bin-Bin
作者单位	1.Tsinghua Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 2.Tsinghua Univ, Ctr Astrophys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 3.China Acad Engn Phys, Laser Fus Res Ctr, Sci & Technol Plasma Phys Lab, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan, Peoples R China 4.Tsinghua Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 5.Tsinghua Univ, Ctr Astrophys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 6.Guangxi Univ, Dept Phys, Guangxi Key Lab Relativist Astrophys, Nanning 530004, Guangxi, Peoples R China 7.Ningbo Univ Technol, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 8.Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Instruments Sci & Engn, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China 9.Ningbo Univ, Sch Mat Sci & Chem Engn, Ningbo 315211, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 10.Nanjing Univ, Sch Astron & Space Sci, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wen, Jiaxing,Long, Xiangyun,Zheng, Xutao,et al. GRID: a student project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era[J]. EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY,2019,48(1):77-95.
APA	Wen, Jiaxing.,Long, Xiangyun.,Zheng, Xutao.,An, Yu.,Cai, Zhengyang.,...&Zhu, Zonghong.(2019).GRID: a student project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era.EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY,48(1),77-95.
MLA	Wen, Jiaxing,et al."GRID: a student project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era".EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY 48.1(2019):77-95.