Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor: A Beyond Earth-orbit Gamma-ray Burst Detector for Multi-Messenger Astronomy

- Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor is 3-year gamma-ray mission in cislunar orbit
to explore the behavior of matter and energy under extreme conditions by observing
relativistic astrophysical explosions.
- MoonBEAM provides key capabilities that are difficult to achieve in Low Earth Orbit:
- instantaneous all-sky gamma-ray field of view
- uninterrupted observations with >96% duty cycle
- background radiation stability
- 3 years of mission operation will provide observations of:
- 1600 binary compact mergers
- 5900 optically discovered core collapse supernovae
- 140 magnetar giant flares
- and enables 55 very high energy gamma-ray and 360 optical follow-up