Gamma-Ray Burst Detection with INTEGRAL/SPI
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, has strong capabilities in the field of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detections. In its 16 deg field of view (FoV) SPI is able to trigger and to localize GRBs with an accuracy for strong bursts better than 1 deg. The expected GRB detection rate is about one per month.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407082,
title = {Gamma-Ray Burst Detection with INTEGRAL/SPI},
author = {Andreas von Kienlin and Nikolas Arend and Giselher Lichti and Andrew Strong and Paul Connell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407082},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Gamma-ray bursts in the afterglow era", 3rd workshop, Rome 17-20 Sept. 2002