Published December 9, 2022
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Publication
Daksha: On Alert for High Energy Transients
Creators
- Bhalerao, Varun
- Vadawale, Santosh
- Tendulkar, Shriharsh
- Bhattacharya, Dipankar
- Rana, Vikram
- Adalja, Hitesh Kumar L.
- Belatikar, Hrishikesh
- Bhaganagare, Mahesh
- Dewangan, Gulab
- Ghodgaonkar, Abhijeet
- Goyal, Shiv Kumar
- Gunasekaran, Suresh
- Guruprasad, P.J.
- Koyande, Jayprakash G.
- Kulkarni, Salil
- Kutty, Apk
- Ladiya, Tinkal
- Marla, Deepak
- Mate, Sujay
- Mithun, N.P.S.
- Mote, Rakesh
- Narang, Sanjoli
- Nema, Ayush
- Nimbalkar, Sudhanshu
- Pai, Archana
- Palit, Sourav
- Patel, Arpit
- Patel, Jinaykumar
- Pradeep, Priya
- Ramachandran, Prabhu
- Saiguhan, B.S. Bharath
- Saraogi, Divita
- Sawant, Disha
- Shanmugam, M.
- Sharma, Piyush
- Shetye, Amit
- Singh, Shreeya
- Singh, Nishant
- Singhal, Akshat
- Sreekumar, S.
- Sridhar, Srividhya
- Srinivasan, Rahul
- Tallur, Siddharth
- Tiwari, Neeraj K.
- Vadladi, Amrutha Lakshmi
- Vaishnava, C.S.
- Vishwakarma, Sandeep
- Waratkar, Gaurav
Contributors
Others:
- Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Description
We present Daksha, a proposed high energy transients mission for the study of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources, and gamma ray bursts. Daksha will comprise of two satellites in low earth equatorial orbits, on opposite sides of earth. Each satellite will carry three types of detectors to cover the entire sky in an energy range from 1 keV to >1 MeV. Any transients detected on-board will be announced publicly within minutes of discovery. All photon data will be downloaded in ground station passes to obtain source positions, spectra, and light curves. In addition, Daksha will address a wide range of science cases including monitoring X-ray pulsars, studies of magnetars, solar flares, searches for fast radio burst counterparts, routine monitoring of bright persistent high energy sources, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, and probing primordial black hole abundances through lensing. In this paper, we discuss the technical capabilities of Daksha, while the detailed science case is discussed in a separate paper.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.science/hal-03892291
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-03892291v1
Origin repository
- Origin repository
- UNICA