Instrument Design of the Broadband Observatory for the Localization of Transients

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Dec 1997

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American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #48.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1290

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The Broadband Observatory for Localization of Transients (BOLT) is a Small Explorer mission to study the origins of gamma-ray bursts. BOLT employs a hard X-ray Rotation Modulation Collimator telescope and fine aspect system in a novel implementation to position bursts to a few arcseconds. Positions are reconstructed on-board to an accuracy of 10 arcseconds, and telemetered to the ground within three minutes. At energies above ~ 70 keV, the grid imaging system becomes transparent, and BOLT's large area NaI detector measures the GRB spectrum up to 1 MeV. In this poster, we describe the instrument design. In particular we discuss the design of the RMC telescope, and present calculations and simulations of the BOLT telescope performance.

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