Seventeenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

The SVOM mission for the study of the transient high-energy sources

9 Jul 2024, 15:00

20m

Lab. A ( Palazzo Micara of the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University)

Invited talk in a parallel session The SVOM mission in the time-domain era The SVOM mission in the time-domain era

Speaker

Andrea Goldwurm (APC-Paris & CEA/IRFU-Saclay)

Description

On behalf of the SVOM collaboration, I will present the science objectives, characteristics and status of the Chinese-French Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor mission, expected to put in orbit, at the end of June 2024, a spacecraft carring four instruments, working in a range from visible to gamma-ray frequencies, in order to observe transient and variable high-energy sources.
With the capability to autonomously point the narrow field telescopes on the the transient events detected by the large field instruments, and supported by a near-real time alert system and a battery of ground telescopes, SVOM is dedicated to the time domain astronomy and particularly to the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts.

Presentation materials

SVOM-MG17-AG-fin-pdf.pdf