Ireland gets serious about space science with the coming launch of its first CubeSat. The idea is to look for gamma ray bursts in a cheaper, more efficient manner.
Short-duration bursts last less than two seconds and appear to result from two possible scenarios —- the merger of two neutron stars to form a new black hole, or the merger of a neutron star and a black hole to form a larger black hole, says UCD.
GRBs are thought to be highly focused, with most of the energy collimated into a narrow jet traveling near the speed of light, says NASA. Astronomers are only able to detect these GRB jets if they are pointed directly at us, NASA notes. EIRSAT-1’s onboard computer will know if something has been detected and then will download that information back to the UCD campus, says Martin-Carrillo. That will only happen in a very specific 10-minute window, maybe twice a day, he says.Current GRB satellites are old; with CubeSats, we're trying to build cheaper, more up to date GRB detectors, says Martin-Carrillo.
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