Study of Early Universe Extreme Phenomena on Lomonosov Space Mission
Abstract
The number of experiments on-board Lomonosov spacecraft are preparing now at SINP MSU in co-operation with other organisations. The main idea of Lomonosov mission is to study extreme astrophysical phenomena, such as cosmic gamma-ray bursts and ultra-high energy cosmic rays. These phenomena connect with a processes occurred in Early Universe in very distant astrophysical objects and give us information about first stages of Universe evolution. Thus, the Lomonosov mission scientific equipment includes several instruments for gamma-ray burst observation in optical, ultra-violet, X-rays and gamma-rays and the wide aperture telescope for ultra-high energy particle study by detection of ionisation light from its tracks in the Atmosphere. The main parameters and brief description of these instruments are presented.
- Publication:
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Journal of Cosmology
- Pub Date:
- March 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012JCos...18.7999S