The 2nd Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: The First Four Years
Abstract
This is the second of a series of catalogs of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). It extends the first two-year catalog by two more years, resulting in an overall list of 953 GBM triggered GRBs. The intention of the GBM GRB catalog is to provide information to the community on the most important observables of the GBM detected GRBs. For each GRB the location and main characteristics of the prompt emission, the duration, peak flux and fluence are derived. The latter two quantities are calculated for the 50 - 300 keV energy band, where the maximum energy release of GRBs in the instrument reference system is observed and also for a broader energy band from 10 - 1000 keV, exploiting the full energy range of GBMs low-energy detectors. Furthermore, information is given on the settings and modifications of the triggering criteria and exceptional operational conditions during years three and four in the mission. This second catalog is an official product of the Fermi GBM science team, and the data files containing the complete results are available from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.5080,
title = {The 2nd Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: The First Four Years},
author = {Andreas von Kienlin and Charles A. Meegan and William S. Paciesas and P. N. Bhat and Elisabetta Bissaldi and Michael S. Briggs and J. Michael Burgess and David Byrne and Vandiver Chaplin and William Cleveland and Valerie Connaughton and Andrew C. Collazzi and Gerard Fitzpatrick and Suzanne Foley and Melissa Gibby and Misty Giles and Adam Goldstein and Jochen Greiner and David Gruber and Sylvain Guiriec and Alexander J. van der Horst and Chryssa Kouveliotou and Emily Layden and Sheila McBreen and Sinead McGlynn and Veronique Pelassa and Robert D. Preece and Arne Rau and Dave Tierney and Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge and Shaolin Xiong and George Younes and Hoi-Fung Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5080},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
151 pages, 10 figures, 9 tables; to be published in ApJS