India's first space research observatory Astronomy Satellite detects 600 gamma ray bursts

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New Delhi/Mumbai: India's first observatory for space research Astronomy Satellite (also called Astronomy Space Telescope and Astrosat) is exploring the mysteries and wonders of the infinite space with its eagle eye. Astrosat has detected 600 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) on November 22, 2023, emitted during the dying phase of the Mahavirat star (every star in space is the Sun), which is hundreds of millions of kilometers from Earth. Or caught.

600 GRBs were discovered by the astronomy satellite's Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) scientific instrument.

Such gamma ray bursts are also emitted from the supermassive collision of any two neutron stars in space.

Three of the five telescopes of the astronomy satellite are built at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR-Mumbai).

CZTI Principal Investigator Dipankar Bhattacharya informed that Astrosat's CZTI instrument is indeed performing very well. The astronomy observatory, launched on September 28, 2015, has been performing bright exploratory work for eight years, although it is actually five years old. The 600 gamma ray bursts captured by CZTI have more energy than our Sun emits during its entire lifetime. are many times more.

Varun Bhalerao, Associate Professor of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Bombay), who is associated with CZTITM and made an important contribution to the 600 Gamma Ray Burst research, gave special information to Gujarat Samachar and said that on November 22, 2023, we will see a very distant mass from our Sun. About 600 gamma ray bursts have been captured at the death stage of a star with five times more mass. In fact, the number of gamma ray bursts is increasing by 70-80 every year. Thus the operation of India's first observatory astrosat is becoming very bright internationally. Such GRBs are ejected during the dying process of a supergiant sun with a mass five times the mass of our sun, or during a catastrophic collision of any two neutron stars.

We have yet to catch three more GRBs on November 27, 2023. More than 400 articles have been published detailing this research and its results.

The special technical specialty of our astrosat is that its mission is to discover more than one mystery and wonder of space. However, it also performs the unique and unique task of capturing such gamma ray bursts. Also, the details of research done by our observatory are used internationally. Happens, which is proud of both our country and ISRO.

Professor Varun Bhalerao presented a very important point and said that now we are building an efficient space telescope with more capacity than the astronomy observatory. ISRO, IIT-B, TIFR in Daksh space telescope project. Scientific institutes like PRL, Raman Research Institute, Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (AYUCA) etc. are involved. Daksha project is originally from IIT-B.