The French payload on-board the SVOM French-Chinese mission

Roger Pons,Pierre Mandrou,Bertrand Cordier,Stéphane Schanne,Jean-Luc Atteia,Stéphane Basa,Diego Götz,Martine Jouret-Perl,Frederic Pinsard,Karine Mercier,Shuangnan Zhang,Jianyan Wei,Cyril Lachaud,François Gonzalez,Tadayuki Takahashi,Jan-Willem A Den Herder,Mark Bautz

doi:10.1117/12.2055163

The French payload on-board the SVOM French-Chinese mission

Roger Pons, Pierre Mandrou + Show 15 more

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055163

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Publication Date: Jul 24, 2014

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Affiliation: Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers, Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Centre National d'Études Spatiales, Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory

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The SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) French-Chinese mission is dedicated to the detection, localization and study of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and other high-energy transient phenomena. We first present the major principles of the SVOM system including the alert system providing near-real-time GRB localizations to large ground-based telescopes. Then the paper describes the definition of the SVOM payload and more particularly the French payload composed of the ECLAIRs instrument, dedicated to GRB detection and positioning, and the MXT instrument, dedicated to GRB followup observation in soft X-ray band.

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