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

A. M. Amelushkin*, V. V. Bogomolov, V. V. Benghin, G. K. Garipov, E. S. Gorbovskoy, B. Grossan, P. A. Klimov, B. A. Khrenov, J. Lee, V. M. Lipunov, G. Na, M. I. Panasyuk, I. H. Park, V. L. Petrov, G. F. Smoot, S. I. Svertilov, Yu Shprits, N. N. Vedenkin, I. V. Yashin

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)545-552
Number of pages8
JournalEAS Publications Series
Volume61
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, GRB 2012 - Malaga, Spain
Duration: 8 Oct 201212 Oct 2012

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