CAPIBARA-GAMMA
A mission concept to observe gamma-ray bursts and advacing in our udnerstanding of fundamental physics. A gamma-ray trasient monitoring CubeSat for the multi-messenger 2030 era.
GAMMA - In a Nutshell
The ultimate goal of CAPIBARA-GAMMA is to provide a scalable, robust, and agile platform for monitoring high-energy transients in the X-ray and gamma-ray bands, arriving in orbit precisely when the 2030s multi-messenger astronomy "golden era" begins. This project is lead and fully developed by students, from high school to undergraduate.
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What is this about?
What are Gamma-Ray Bursts?
GRBs are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe, jet-driven explosions that release more energy in seconds than the Sun will emit in its entire lifetime. They trace the violent deaths of massive stars and the mergers of compact objects, making them windows into fundamental physics and cosmology.
What is Multi-Messenger Astronomy?
Multi-messenger astronomy combines gravitational waves, neutrinos, cosmic rays, and the full electromagnetic spectrum to observe the same event from multiple angles. A single neutron star merger, which was detected by LIGO in GW and by telescopes in X-ray, optical, radio, teaches us far more than any single channel alone.