The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: The First Two Years
Abstract
We present systematic spectral analyses of GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first two years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra extracted from 487 GRBs, and by fitting four different spectral models, this results in a compendium of over 3800 spectra. The models were selected based on their empirical importance to the spectral shape of many GRBs, and the analysis performed was devised to be as thorough and objective as possible. We describe in detail our procedure and criteria for the analyses, and present the bulk results in the form of parameter distributions. This catalog should be considered an official product from 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.1201.2981,
title = {The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: The First Two Years},
author = {Adam Goldstein and J. Michael Burgess and Robert D. Preece and Michael S. Briggs and Sylvain Guiriec and Alexander J. van der Horst and Valerie Connaughton and Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge and William S. Paciesas and Charles A. Meegan and Andreas von Kienlin and P. Narayana Bhat and Elisabetta Bissaldi and Vandiver Chaplin and Roland Diehl and Gerald J. Fishman and Gerard Fitzpatrick and Suzanne Foley and Melissa Gibby and Misty Giles and Jochen Greiner and David Gruber and R. Marc Kippen and Chryssa Kouveliotou and Sheila McBreen and Sinead McGlynn and Arne Rau and Dave Tierney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2981},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
43 pages, 24 Figures, accepted to ApJ Supplements; http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html