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A Proliferated Space Architecture for Time-Domain Astrophysics
Daniel Kocevski, Eric Burns, Thomas Barclay +58
Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (TDAMM) is entering a discovery-rich but follow-up-limited era, creating an urgent need for responsive, multiwavelength space-based cap…
The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument
Ronald A. Remillard, Margarita Hernanz, Jean in 't Zand +26
The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in r…
STROBE-X Mission Overview
Paul S. Ray, Peter W. A. Roming, Andrea Argan +54
We give an overview of the science objectives and mission design of the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) observatory, which has been…
Time-Domain And MultiMessenger Astrophysics Communications Science Analysis Group Report
Jamie A. Kennea, Judith L. Racusin, Eric Burns +11
The Time-Domain And MultiMessenger (TDAMM) Communications Science Analysis Group (TDAMMCommSAG) was formulated to describe the unique technical challenges of communicating rapidly…
Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space
Enrico Bozzo, Lorenzo Amati, Wayne Baumgartner +35
Since their first discovery in the late 1960s, Gamma-ray bursts have attracted an exponentially growing interest from the international community due to their central role in the m…
The NASA Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Science Support Center (MOSSAIC)
Rita M. Sambruna, Joshua E. Schlieder, Daniel Kocevski +10
The era of multi-messenger astrophysics has arrived, leading to key new discoveries and revealing a need for coordination, collaboration, and communication between world-wide commu…
Glowbug, a Low-Cost, High-Sensitivity Gamma-Ray Burst Telescope
J. E. Grove, C. C. Cheung, M. Kerr +8
We describe Glowbug, a gamma-ray telescope for bursts and other transients in the 30 keV to 2 MeV band. It was recently selected for funding by the NASA Astrophysics Research and A…
Evaluation of Automated Fermi GBM Localizations of Gamma-ray Bursts
Adam Goldstein, Corinne Fletcher, Peter Veres +14
The capability of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) to localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is evaluated for two different automated algorithms: the GBM Team's RoboBA algorithm a…
BurstCube: Concept, Performance, and Status
Jacob R. Smith, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno +26
The first simultaneous detection of a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) with a gravitational-wave (GW) signal ushered in a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In order to increase the…
All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe
Julie McEnery, Juan Abel Barrio, Ivan Agudo +182
The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a probe class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the late 2020s…
STROBE-X: A probe-class mission for X-ray spectroscopy and timing on timescales from microseconds to years
Paul S. Ray, Zaven Arzoumanian, Søren Brandt +30
We describe the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X), a probe-class mission concept that will provide an unprecedented view of the X-ray…
The THESEUS space mission concept: science case, design and expected performances
L. Amati, P. O'Brien, D. Goetz +208
THESEUS is a space mission concept aimed at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-…
BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
Judith Racusin, Jeremy S. Perkins, Michael S. Briggs +12
BurstCube will detect long GRBs, attributed to the collapse of massive stars, short GRBs (sGRBs), resulting from binary neutron star mergers, as well as other gamma-ray transients…
Large Observatory for x-ray Timing (LOFT-P): A Probe-classs Mission Concept Study
Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Paul S. Ray, Deepto Chakrabarty +31
LOFT-P is a concept for a NASA Astrophysics Probe-Class (<$1B) X-ray timing mission, based on the LOFT concept originally proposed to ESAs M3 and M4 calls. LOFT-P requires very lar…
Localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
V. Connaughton, M. S. Briggs, A. Goldstein +25
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected over 1400 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) since it began science operations in July, 2008. We use a subset of over 300 GRBs localized b…
LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +245
The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is curren…
The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR): A US MIDEX Mission Concept
Paul S. Ray, Bernard F. Phlips, Kent S. Wood +3
AXTAR is a NASA MIDEX mission concept for X-ray timing of compact objects that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time resolution, highly flexib…
AXTAR: Mission Design Concept
Paul S. Ray, Deepto Chakrabarty, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge +18
The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR) is a mission concept for X-ray timing of compact objects that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time re…
On Calibrations using the Crab Nebula and Models of the Nebular X-ray Emission
M. C. Weisskopf, M. Guainazzi, K. Jahoda +5
Motivated by a paper (Kirsch et al. 2005) on possible use of the Crab Nebula as a standard candle for calibrating X-ray response functions, we examine consequences of intrinsic dep…
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
Charles Meegan, Giselher Lichti, P. N. Bhat +18
The Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) will significantly augment the science return from the Fermi Observatory in the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The primary objective of GBM is…