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NASA's Swift Observatory To Search for Gamma-Ray Bursts

机译:NASA的Swift天文台搜寻伽马射线爆发

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An international team of as-tronomers is eagerly awaiting the launch of a new orbital observato-ry that hopefully will shed light on the most powerful explosions in the universe. NASA's Swift spacecraft is being readied for a mission to scan the sky for gamma-ray bursts, cos- mic explosions that can bum with the intensity of billions of suns in less than a second. Researchers hope the mission will identify the events that trigger the bursts. "I'm very anxious to get up there and start doing the science," said Swift principal investigator Neil Gehrels, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It's one of the most exciting things of my life." As its name implies, the Swift mission is designed for speed. Equipped with three telescopes, the spacecraft is designed to auto-matically detect the first flash of a gamma-ray burst and then target itself toward the event in about one minute to make detailed ob-servations.
机译:一个国际天文学家团队正热切地等待着一个新的轨道观测站的发射,该观测站有望阐明宇宙中最强大的爆炸事件。美国宇航局(NASA)的斯威夫特(Swift)航天器已准备就绪,可以执行任务,以扫描天空中的伽马射线暴和宇宙爆炸,这些爆炸可以在不到一秒钟的时间内使数十亿太阳的强度爆炸。研究人员希望任务能够识别出引发爆炸的事件。斯威夫特的首席研究员尼尔·格里尔斯(Neil Gehrels)说:“我非常着急,要开始做科学,这是我一生中最激动人心的事情之一。”斯威夫特是美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心的科学家。顾名思义,Swift任务专为提高速度而设计。配备三架望远镜的航天器旨在自动检测伽马射线爆发的第一次闪光,然后在大约一分钟内将自己对准事件,以进行详细的观测。

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