Conveners
The SVOM mission in the time-domain era: Tuesday block 1
- Maria Grazia Bernardini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
Description
SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is a Sino-French mission dedicated to the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), scheduled for launch in June 2024. Thanks to the synergy among 4 instruments in space and telescopes on ground, it is capable to detect and localize GRBs and to follow their evolution from the MeV and X-rays to the visible and NIR bands. The SVOM instrumentation, primarily designed for GRB studies, composes a unique multi-frequency observatory with rapid slew capability that will find multiple applications to study extra-galactic and galactic transient phenomena, and to the search and characterization of the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave emitters. In this session we will present the main characteristics of the SVOM mission and the new science windows that it is going to open. We welcome as contributions new ideas of how to exploit the mission's capabilities for GRBs and transients from both an observational and theoretical point of view.
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...
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