Meeting with Alain Klotz, who presents us the TAROT telescope. Côte d’Azur observatory located in the Plateau de Calern, August 2015. Click on CC to activate……
For a mission such as SVOM, large field-of-view instruments are needed to maximise the chances of discovery. The ECLAIRs telescope is a matter of balance:……
The SVOM mission was approved following an intergovernmental agreement between France and China, specified in a memorandum of understanding in 2014. It is a cooperation……
The French collaborators are: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales CNES Maître d’œuvre du projet SVOM Maitre d’œuvre du télescope ECLAIRs Maitre d’œuvre du télescope MXT Institut……
Biology inspiring astronomy The truly innovative MXT concentrator developed to study GRBs is a system inspired by biology. Crustaceans of the order of decapods, such……
The discovery of gamma-ray bursts is recent. The first detection of this phenomenon was carried out by one of the military satellites of the Vela……
Thanks to the possibility of observing the gamma-ray bursts in the optical and infrared, it is now known that they occur in very distant galaxies,……
In 1997, an afterglow associated with a gamma ray burst was discovered by the Italian satellite BeppoSAX. The afterglow corresponds to the extension of the……