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Expected Gamma-Ray Burst Detection Rates and Redshift Distributions for the BlackCAT CubeSat Mission
| العنوان: | Expected Gamma-Ray Burst Detection Rates and Redshift Distributions for the BlackCAT CubeSat Mission |
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| المؤلفون: | Colosimo, Joseph M., Fox, Derek B., Falcone, Abraham D., Palmer, David M., Hancock, Frederic, Betts, Michael, Bevidas Jr., William A., Buffington, Jacob C., Burrows, David N., Catlin, Zachary E., Emeigh, Timothy, Forstmeier, Thomas, Nizam, Kadri M., Reichard, Collin, Scigliani, Ana C., Stone, Lukas R., Thornton, Ian, Wages, Mitchell, Washington, Daniel, Zugger, Michael E. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | We report the results of an extensive set of simulations exploring the sensitivity of the BlackCAT CubeSat to long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). BlackCAT is a NASA APRA-funded CubeSat mission for the detection and real-time sub-arcminute localization of high-redshift ($z\gtrsim 3.5$) GRBs. Thanks to their luminous and long-lived afterglow emissions, GRBs are uniquely valuable probes of high-redshift star-forming galaxies and the intergalactic medium. In addition, each detected GRB with a known redshift serves to localize a region of high-redshift star formation in three dimensions, enabling deep follow-on searches for host galaxies and associated local and large-scale structure. We explore two distinct models for the GRB redshift distribution and luminosity function, both consistent with \textit{Swift} observations. We find that, for either model, BlackCAT is expected to detect a mean of 42 bursts per year on-orbit, with 6.7% to 10% of these at $z>3.5$. BlackCAT bursts will be localized to $r_{90} \lesssim 55^{\prime\prime}$ precision and reported to the community within seconds. Due to the mission orbit and pointing scheme, bursts will be located in the night sky and well-placed for deep multiwavelength follow-up observations. BlackCAT is on schedule to achieve launch readiness in 2025. Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables; Accepted for publication in ApJ |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10872 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2405.10872 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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