A new astrophysics mission for a Low Energy Gamma-ray burst Observatory (LEGO)

Tümay O. Tümer; Kevin Hurley; Hakki Ogelman; Robert J. Paulos; Richard C. Puetter; Eric Beuville; Dieter Hartmann; Bradley Schaefer; Jeff Preble; Richard Rothschild; Mark H. Finger; Lorenzo Fabris; Terrence J. O'Neill; Mark Jennings; Amos Yahil

doi:10.1117/12.283801

A new astrophysics mission for a Low Energy Gamma-ray burst Observatory (LEGO)

Tümay O. Tümer, Kevin Hurley, Hakki Ogelman, Robert J. Paulos, Richard C. Puetter, Eric Beuville, Dieter Hartmann, Bradley Schaefer, Jeff Preble, Richard Rothschild, Mark H. Finger, Lorenzo Fabris, Terrence J. O'Neill, Mark Jennings, Amos Yahil

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We propose a new astrophysics space mission for a Low Energy Gamma-ray-burst Observatory (LEGO) that will fit the envelope of a small-explorer (SMEX) type mission. The LEGO instrument combines silicon pixel detectors with ultra-high energy resolution and a novel cost effective fine-pitch coded mask, to image the sky with sub-arcminute accuracy in the 0.3 - 30 keV range with a wide field-of-view. LEGO is well adapted to study hundreds of short transients such as gamma-ray bursts and soft gamma repeaters in the unexplored energy range below 5 keV. LEGO takes one of the next logical steps in GRB studies in the post-BeppoSAX era by attacking the astrophysics questions raised by recent discoveries of variable radio, optical, and x-ray counterparts to burst sources. In addition to monitoring the sky for gamma-ray bursts, LEGO would provide a first all-sky monitor in the 0.3-30 keV range. LEGO will be sensitive to all mCrab sources in the sky in a day and to 0.1 mCrab sources in a year, and thus, may provide daily light curves and sensitive spectral measurements on about 10³ objects and yearly data on an order of magnitude more sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	429-437
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	3114
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.283801
State	Published - 1997
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1997 EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Jul 30 1997 → Aug 1 1997

Keywords

All-sky monitor
Coded aperture telescope
Coded mask imaging
Gamma Ray Bursts
Silicon pixel detector
X-ray detector

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Tümer, T. O., Hurley, K., Ogelman, H., Paulos, R. J., Puetter, R. C., Beuville, E., Hartmann, D., Schaefer, B., Preble, J., Rothschild, R., Finger, M. H., Fabris, L., O'Neill, T. J., Jennings, M., & Yahil, A. (1997). A new astrophysics mission for a Low Energy Gamma-ray burst Observatory (LEGO). Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 3114, 429-437. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.283801

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