Dortmund 2021 – scientific programme

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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 83: Gamma astronomy II

T 83.8: Talk

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 17:50–18:05, Th

COMCUBE: Exploring the violent Universe with CubeSat Technology — •Jan Lommler for the COMCUBE collaboration — Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Gamma Ray Bursts are a window into some of the most energetic processes in the Universe. Due to the energy range of the emitted electro-magnetic radiation, measurements have to be performed in space by a network of either dedicated observatories like SWIFT and POLAR or piggy-back detectors mounted on other observatories like Fermi GBM. Most detectors only allow the measurement of the burst’s energy-spectrum and time evolution, missing out on polarization of the incident photons.Using Compton scattering as main detection channel, Cubesats offer the opportunity to setup a network of small-scale dedicated detectors at relatively low cost that are able to pinpoint GRBs, measure their spectra and temporal evolution while obtaining polarization information. In this talk we want present the detector concept of COMCUBE and report basic performance estimates.