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The coherent search developed by ST12 is a novel statistical method that statistically combines multi-detector data to search for transient astrophysical signals and has proven incredibly effective at increasing the sensitivity of gamma-ray instruments. We plan to work with an computer engineer from ES52 to optimize the existing code base for use with radiation-tolerant flight computers. The final deliverable will be a flight software application that can be used by future low cost gamma-ray missions.
Current gamma-ray missions transmit tens of gigabytes of data per day to supplement their limited on-board flight software with sophisticated analysis methods to search for transient astrophysical signals. Implementing the most sensitive of these search algorithms into a flight software application would enable low cost CubeSat/SmallSat gamma-ray missions that would otherwise not have the telemetry budget to support ground analysis of raw data.
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