@Article{BragaDCDSAGSSSR:2021:CuExDe,
author = "Braga, Jo{\~a}o and Dur{\~a}o, O. S. C. and Castro, M. and
D'Amico, Fl{\'a}vio and Stecchini, Paulo Eduardo Freire and
Amir{\'a}bile, S{\'e}rgio Luiz Carreira and Gonzalez Blanco, F.
and Strauss, Cesar and Silva, W. and Schad, V. R. and Reitano,
Luiz Antonio",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {CRON
Sistemas e Tecnologia Ltda} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and
{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Atlas Software e
Solu{\c{c}}{\~o}es Ltda} and {Horus Eye Tech Engenharia de
Sistemas} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "LECX: A cubesat experiment to detect and localize cosmic
explosions in hard X-rays",
journal = "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
year = "2021",
volume = "493",
number = "4",
pages = "4852--4860",
month = "Apr.",
keywords = "gravitational waves, instrumentation: detectors, methods:
numerical, space vehicles: instruments, techniques: miscellaneous,
X-rays: bursts.",
abstract = "With the advent of the nanosat/cubesat revolution, new
opportunities have appeared to develop and launch small
(\∼1000 cm3), low-cost (\∼US\$ 1M) experiments in
space in very short time frames (\∼2 yr). In the field of
high-energy astrophysics, in particular, it is a considerable
challenge to design instruments with compelling science and
competitive capabilities that can fit in very small satellite
buses, such as a cubesat platform, and operate them with very
limited resources. Here, we describe a hard X-ray (30200 keV)
experiment, LECX (Localizador de Explos{\~o}es C{\'o}smicas de
Raios X Locator of X-Ray Cosmic Explosions), that is capable of
detecting and localizing within a few degrees events like
gamma-ray bursts and other explosive phenomena in a 2U-cubesat
platform, at a rate of \∼5 events per year. In the current
gravitational wave era of astronomy, a constellation or swarm of
small spacecraft carrying instruments such as LECX can be a very
cost-effective way to search for electromagnetic counterparts of
gravitational wave events produced by the coalescence of compact
objects.",
doi = "10.1093/mnras/staa500",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa500",
issn = "0035-8711 and 1365-2966",
language = "en",
targetfile = "braga_lecz.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "09 maio 2024"
}