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GRB duration distribution considering the position of the Fermi

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2012-02-14 v1

Abstract

The Fermi satellite has a particular motion during its flight which enables it to catch the gamma-ray bursts mostly well. The side-effect of this favourable feature is that the lightcurves of the GBM detectors are stressed by rapidly and extremely varying background. Before this data is processed, it needs to be separated from the background. The commonly used methods were useless for most cases of Fermi, so we developed a new technique based on the motion and orientation of the satellite. The background-free lightcurve can be used to perform statistical surveys, hence we showed the efficiency of our background-filtering method presenting a statistical analysis known from the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1202.2592,
  title  = {GRB duration distribution considering the position of the Fermi},
  author = {Dorottya Szecsi and Zsolt Bagoly and Istvan Horvath and Lajos G. Balazs and Peter Veres and Attila Meszaros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2592},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages, 6 figures. Presented as a poster on the conference '8th INTEGRAL/BART Workshop, 26-29 April 2011, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic'. Accepted to Acta Polytechnica