Development micro-satellite TSUBAME for polarimetry of gamma-ray bursts

Yoichi Yatsu; Takahiro Enomoto; Kosuke Kawakami; Kazuki Tokoyoda; Takahiro Toizumi; Nobuyuki Kawai; Kazuya Ishizaka; Saburo Matsunaga; Takeshi Nakamori; Jun Kataoka; Sin Kubo

doi:10.1117/12.893372

13 September 2011 Development micro-satellite TSUBAME for polarimetry of gamma-ray bursts

Yoichi Yatsu, Takahiro Enomoto, Kosuke Kawakami, Kazuki Tokoyoda, Takahiro Toizumi, Nobuyuki Kawai, Kazuya Ishizaka, Saburo Matsunaga, Takeshi Nakamori, Jun Kataoka, Sin Kubo

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Proceedings Volume 8145, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XVII; 814508 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893372
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most drastic and intriguing phenomena in high energy astrophysics. The nature of relativistic collimated outflows that bight be generated by gravitational collapses of massive stars is to investigate the physical process just around the central engines by constraining magnetic environment. For this purpose we developed a compact and high sensitive hard x-ray polarimeter aboard a university class micro-satellite "TSUBAME." Unsurprisingly, any micro-satellites have stringent limitations on size, mass, and power consumption restricting the effective area of detectors. However, high luminosities of GRBs allow us to measure their polarizations only if we start observations just after the ignitions. TSUBAME overcomes this problem by using compact an high-torque actuators, control moment gyroscopes, that enable high speed attitude control faster than 6° s^-1. Cooperating with a wide field burst monitor on board for real time position determination of GRBs, TSUBAME can start a pointing observation within ~15 s after the detection for any GRBs in the half-sky field of view of the burst monitor.

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Yoichi Yatsu, Takahiro Enomoto, Kosuke Kawakami, Kazuki Tokoyoda, Takahiro Toizumi, Nobuyuki Kawai, Kazuya Ishizaka, Saburo Matsunaga, Takeshi Nakamori, Jun Kataoka, and Sin Kubo "Development micro-satellite TSUBAME for polarimetry of gamma-ray bursts", Proc. SPIE 8145, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XVII, 814508 (13 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893372

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