The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The selection of the GLAST burst monitor (GBM) by NASA will allow the investigation of the relation between the keV and the MeV-GeV emission from gamma-ray bursts. The GBM consists of 12 NaI and 2 BGO crystals allowing a continuous measurement of the energy spectra of gamma-ray bursts from ~5 keV to \~30 MeV. One feature of the GBM is its high time resolution for time-resolved gamma-ray spectroscopy. Moreover the arrangement of the NaI crystals allows a rapid on-board location (<15 degrees) of a gamma-ray burst within a FoV of ~8.6 sr. This position will be communicated to the main instrument of GLAST making follow-up observations at high energies possible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0109144,
title = {The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)},
author = {G. G. Lichti and M. S. Briggs and R. Diehl and G. Fishman and R. Georgii and R. M. Kippen and C. Kouveliotou and C. Meegan and W. Paciesas and R. Preece and V. Schoenfelder and A. von Kienlin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0109144},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages with 2 figures