Space experiments on-board of lomonosov mission to study gamma-ray bursts and UHECRS

¹ D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/2, 119991 Moscow, Russia
² P.K. Shternberg Astronomical Institute of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Universitetskii prosp. 17, 119992 Moscow, Russia
³ Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, Berkeley, California, USA
⁴ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seobu-ro, Jangangu, Suwonsi, Gyeongido 440-746, Korea
⁵ Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave / 7127, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract

The number of experiments on-board Lomonosov spacecraft are preparing now at SINP MSU in co-operation with other organisations. The main idea of Lomonosov mission is to study extreme astrophysical phenomena, such as cosmic gamma-ray bursts and ultra-high energy cosmic rays. These phenomena connect with processes occurred in very distant astrophysical objects of the Early Universe and give us information about first stages of Universe evolution. Thus, the Lomonosov mission scientific equipment includes several instruments for gamma-ray burst observation in optics, ultra-violet, X-rays and gamma-rays and the wide aperture telescope for ultra-high energy particle study by detection of ionisation light along its tracks in the atmosphere. The main parameters and a brief description of these instruments are presented.