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author 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
author_facet 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
contents 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.
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spellingShingle Daksha: On Alert for High Energy Transients
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
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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.
title Daksha: On Alert for High Energy Transients
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12055