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EAS Publications Series
Volume 61, 2013
Gamma-ray Bursts: 15 Years of GRB Afterglows – Progenitors, Environments and Host Galaxies from the Nearby to the Early Universe
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| Page(s) | 625 - 631 | |
| Section | Chapter XIII: Instrumentation & Techniques-III Future Projects | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1361099 | |
| Published online | 22 July 2013 | |
A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.Gorosabel and I.H. Park (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 61 (2013) 625-631
A-STAR: The All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter
1 Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Leicester, LE1 7RH,
UK
2 UPS-OMP, Université de Toulouse,
IRAP, Toulouse,
France
3 CNRS, IRAP, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400
Toulouse,
France
4 CEA, IRFU, Service
d’Astrophysique, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette,
France
5 INAF-IASF Milan,
via Bassini 15, 20133
Milano,
Italy
The small mission A-STAR (All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter) aims to locate the X-ray counterparts to ALIGO and other gravitational wave detector sources, to study the poorly-understood low luminosity gamma-ray bursts, and to find a wide variety of transient high-energy source types, A-STAR will survey the entire available sky twice per 24 hours. The payload consists of a coded mask instrument, Owl, operating in the novel low energy band 4−150 keV, and a sensitive wide-field focussing soft X-ray instrument, Lobster, working over 0.15−5 keV. A-STAR will trigger on ~100 GRBs/yr, rapidly distributing their locations.
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