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GrailQuest and HERMES: hunting for gravitational wave electromagnetic counterparts and probing space-time quantum foam

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BURDERI Luciano SALVO Tiziana Di RIGGIO Alessandro GAMBINO Angelo Francesco SANNA Andrea FIORE Fabrizio AMARILLI Fabrizio AMATI Lorenzo AMBROSINO Filippo AMELINO-CAMELIA Giovanni ANITRA Alessio BARBERA Marco BECHINI Michele BELLUTTI Pierluigi BERTACCIN Roberto BERTUCCIO Giuseppe CAMPANA Riccardo CAO Jiewei CAPOZZIELLO Salvatore CERAUDO Francesco CHEN Tianxiang CINELLI Marco CITOSSI Marco CLERICI Aurora COLAGROSSI Andrea COSTA Enrico CURZEL Serena LAURENTIS Mariafelicia De CASA Giovanni Della VALLE Massimo Della DEMENEV Evgeny SANTO Melania Del DILILLO Giuseppe EFREMOV Pavel EVANGELISTA Yuri FEROCI Marco FERRUGLIO Chiara FERRANDI Fabrizio FIORINI Mauro FIORITO Michele FRONTERA Filippo FUSCHINO Fabio GACNIK Dejan GALGOCZI Gabor GAO Na GANDOLA Massimo GHIRLANDA Giancarlo GAMBOC Andreja GRASSI Marco GUIDORZI Cristiano GUZMAN Alejandro IARIA Rosario KARLICA Mile KOSTIC Uros LABANTI Claudio ROSA Giovanni La CICERO Ugo Lo FERNANDEZ Borja Lopez LUNGHI Paolo MALCOVATI Piero MASELLI Alessandro MANCA Arianna MELE Filippo MILANKOVICH Dorottya MONGE Angel MORGANTE Gianluca NAVA Lara NEGRI Barbara NOGARA Paolo OHNO Masanori OTTOLINA Daniele PASQUALE Andrea PAL Andras PERRI Matteo PICCININ Margherita PIAZZOLLA Raffaele PIRROTTA Simone PLIEGO-CABALLERO Samuel PRINETTO Jacopo PUCACCO Giuseppe PUCCETTI Simonetta RAPISARDA Massimo RASHEVSKAYA Irina RASHEVSKY Alexander ŘÍPA Jakub RUSSO Francesco PAPITTO Alessandro PIRANOMONTE Silvia SANTANGELO Andrea SCALA Francesca SCIARRONE Giulia SELCAN David SILVESTRINI Stefano SOTTILE Giuseppe ROTOVNIK Tomaz TENZER Christoph TROISI Ivan VACCHI Andrea VIRGILLI Enrico WERNER Norbert WANG Lingjun XU Yupeng ZAMPA Gianluigi ZAMPA Nicola ZANE Silvia ZANOTTI Giovanni

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2561779
Keywords Gamma-Ray Bursts; X-rays; CubeSats; nano-satellites; temporal triangulation; Quantum gravity; Gravitational Wave counterparts; all-sky monitor; Temporal triangulation
Description Within Quantum Gravity theories, different models for space-time quantisation predict an energy dependent speed for photons. Although the predicted discrepancies are minuscule, GRB, occurring at cosmological distances, could be used to detect this signature of space-time granularity with a new concept of modular observatory of huge overall collecting area consisting in a fleet of small satellites in low orbits, with sub-microsecond time resolution and wide energy band (keV-MeV). The enormous number of collected photons will allow to effectively search these energy dependent delays. Moreover, GrailQuest will allow to perform temporal triangulation of high signal-to-noise impulsive events with arc-second positional accuracies: an extraordinary sensitive X-ray/Gamma all-sky monitor crucial for hunting the elusive electromagnetic counterparts of GW. A pathfinder of GrailQuest is already under development through the HERMES project: a fleet of six 3U cube-sats to be launched by 2021/22.
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