TY - JOUR
T1 - Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor
T2 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023
AU - MoonBEAM team
AU - Michelle Hui, C.
AU - Wilson-Hodge, Colleen
AU - Goldstein, Adam
AU - Jenke, Peter
AU - Briggs, Michael
AU - Burns, Eric
AU - Fletcher, Corinne
AU - Ho, Anna
AU - Howell, Eric
AU - Hristov, Boyan
AU - Kocevski, Daniel
AU - Littenberg, Tyson
AU - Perkins, Jeremy
AU - Racusin, Judith
AU - Roberts, Oliver
AU - Smith, Jacob R.
AU - Veres, Peter
AU - Wood, Joshua
AU - Zhu, Sylvia
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PY - 2024/9/27
Y1 - 2024/9/27
N2 - Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM) is a gamma-ray mission concept to observe the entire sky instantaneously for relativistic astrophysical explosions from a cislunar orbit. It is designed to explore the behavior of matter and energy under extreme conditions by observing the prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts, identifying the conditions capable of launching transient relativistic jets and the origins of high-energy radiation from the relativistic outflows. MoonBEAM will achieve uninterrupted, instantaneous all-sky coverage from 10 keV to 5 MeV by using phoswich gamma-ray detectors and operating from a cislunar orbit. This orbit will minimize Earth blockage and background variations that are difficult to reduce in Low Earth Orbit. MoonBEAM will provide essential prompt gamma-ray observations and rapid alerts to the astronomical community for contemporaneous and follow-up observations. This presentation will give an overview of the MoonBEAM mission and its mission design, which enable sensitive high-energy all-sky observation that is critical to the transient and multi-messenger astronomy.
AB - Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM) is a gamma-ray mission concept to observe the entire sky instantaneously for relativistic astrophysical explosions from a cislunar orbit. It is designed to explore the behavior of matter and energy under extreme conditions by observing the prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts, identifying the conditions capable of launching transient relativistic jets and the origins of high-energy radiation from the relativistic outflows. MoonBEAM will achieve uninterrupted, instantaneous all-sky coverage from 10 keV to 5 MeV by using phoswich gamma-ray detectors and operating from a cislunar orbit. This orbit will minimize Earth blockage and background variations that are difficult to reduce in Low Earth Orbit. MoonBEAM will provide essential prompt gamma-ray observations and rapid alerts to the astronomical community for contemporaneous and follow-up observations. This presentation will give an overview of the MoonBEAM mission and its mission design, which enable sensitive high-energy all-sky observation that is critical to the transient and multi-messenger astronomy.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85212248134
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 444
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 877
Y2 - 26 July 2023 through 3 August 2023
ER -