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Design and Fabrication of Detector Module for UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope

A. JungS. AhmadK. -B. AhnP. BarrillonS. Blin-bondilS. BrandtC. Budtz-jørgensenA. J. Castro-tiradoP. ChenH. S. ChoiY. J. ChoiP. ConnellS. Dagoret-campagneC. De La TailleC. EylesB. GrossanI. HermannM. -H. A. HuangS. JeongJ. E. KimS. -W. KimY. W. KimJ. LeeH. LimE. V. LinderT. -C. LiuN. LundK. W. MinG. W. NaJ. W. NamK. H. NamM. I. PanasyukI. H. ParkV. RegleroJ. M. RodrigoG. F. SmootY. D. SuhS. SvertilovN. VedenkinM. -Z WangI. YashinM. H. Zhao

subject

Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsAstrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

description

The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) pathfinder is a space mission devoted to the measurement of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), especially their early light curves which will give crucial information on the progenitor stars and central engines of the GRBs. It consists of two instruments: the UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger telescope (UBAT) for the detection of GRB locations and the Slewing Mirror Telescope (SMT) for the UV/optical afterglow observations, upon triggering by UBAT. The UBAT employs a coded-mask {\gamma}/X-ray camera with a wide field of view (FOV), and is comprised of three parts: a coded mask, a hopper, and a detector module (DM). The UBAT DM consists of a LYSO scintillator crystal array, multi-anode photo multipliers, and analog and digital readout electronics. We present here the design and fabrication of the UBAT DM, as well as its preliminary test results.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-06-20
10.7529/icrc2011/v09/1262http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3802