SVOM Consortium

The French actors

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales CNES

Maître d’œuvre du projet SVOM
Maitre d’œuvre du télescope ECLAIRs
Maitre d’œuvre du télescope MXT

Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l’Univers CEA/IRFU

Scientific responsibility for the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the MXT instrument
Scientific responsibility for the French ground segment
Prime contractor for the development of the French Science Center (FSC)
Prime contractor for the development of the MXT instrument expertise centre
Participation in the development of the ECLAIRs instrument (trigger software)
Participation in the development of the MXT instrument (X-ray camera)
Participation in the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope (optical design)

Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie CNRS/IRAP

Scientific responsibility for the ECLAIRs instrument
Participation in the development of the ECLAIRs instrument (gamma camera)
Lead contractor for the development of the ECLAIRs expertise centre
Participation in the processing of scientific data from the ECLAIRs instrument
Lead contractor for the development of the F-GFT (French – Ground Follow-up Telescope) robotic telescope
Lead contractor for the development of the CAGIRE infrared camera of F-GFT

Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille CNRS/LAM

Scientific co-leadership of the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the F-GFT robotic telescope
Scientific responsibility for the organisation of the ground follow-up (Follow-up)
Participation in the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope
Participation in the processing of the scientific data of the mission

AstroParticules et Cosmologie APC

Scientific responsibility for non-burst science
Scientific responsibility for multi-messenger activities
Participation in the development of the ECLAIRs instrument (coded mask)
Participation in the scientific data processing of the ECLAIRs instrument

Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris IAP

Scientific responsibility for the burst programme
Participation in the processing of the scientific data of the mission

Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg CNRS/OAS

Participation in the data processing of the MXT instrument

Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier CNRS/LUPM

Participation in the processing of scientific data from the ECLAIRs and GRM instruments

Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille CNRS/CPPM

Prime contractor for the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope expertise centre

Observatoire de Paris CNRS/GEPI

Participation in the processing of scientific data from the VT (Visible Telescope) instrument

Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie CNRS/IJCLab

Development of the interface between SVOM and the multi-messenger observatories
Participation in the development of the MXT instrument (scientific software)

Observatoire de Haute Provence CNRS/OHP

Participation in the development of the F-GFT robotic telescope

Leicester University

Definition of the MXT telescope’s “Lobster eye” optical system
Assembly and integration of the MXT telescope optical system

Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik MPE

Supply of the X-ray detector for the MXT camera
Calibration of the ECLAIRs and MXT instruments to the Panther X-ray source

Université Nationale Autonome du Mexique UNAM

Hosting the F-GFT telescope at the San Pedro Martyr site
Supply of the visible camera for F-GFT
Operation and maintenance of F-GFT

The Chinese actors

Shanghai Engineering Centre for Microsatellites SECM

SVOM satellite prime contractor

National Astronomical Observatory of China NAOC

Scientific responsibility for the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the VT instrument
Scientific responsibility for the robotic telescope C-GFT (Chinese – Ground Follow-up Telescope)
Scientific responsibility for the Ground Wide Angle Camera (GWAC)
Scientific responsibility for the Chinese ground segment
Lead contractor for the development of the Chinese Science Center (CSC)

National Space Science Center NSSC

Prime contractor for the SVOM mission control centre

Institute of High Energy Physics IHEP

Scientific co-leadership of the SVOM mission
Scientific responsibility for the GRM (Gamma Ray Monitor) instrument
Project manager of the GRM instrument

Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics XIOPM

Contractor of the VT (Visible Telescope)