English
Related papers

Related papers: GRB Observed by IBIS/PICsIT in the MeV Energy Rang…

200 papers

We present the first high resolution (R=20000--45000, corresponding to 14 km/s at 4200A to 6.6 km/s at 9000A) observations of the optical afterglow of Gamma Ray Bursts. GRB020813 and GRB021004 were observed by UVES@VLT 22.19 hours and 13.52…

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A, with its extreme brightness, has provided the opportunity to explore GRB prompt and afterglow emission behavior on short time scales with high statistics. In conjunction with detection up to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 James Rodi , Pietro Ubertini

The short duration (T90 < 2 s) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected in the SPI-ACS experiment onboard the INTEGRAL observatory are investigated. Averaged light curves have been constructed for various groups of events, including short GRBs and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Yu. Minaev , A. S. Pozanenko , V. M. Loznikov

We discuss INTEGRAL's capabilities to detect a high redshift population of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in comparison to other high-energy missions. Emphasis is done on the study of the relative capabilities of IBIS on board INTEGRAL with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gorosabel , N. Lund , S. Brandt , N. J. Westergaard , J. M. Castro Cerón , ;

A systematic search for cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and other short hard X-ray events in the archival data from the IBIS/ISGRI telescope of the INTEGRAL observatory over 2003-2018 has been carried out. Seven previously unknown GRBs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-26 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , A. S. Pozanenko , P. Yu. Minaev

PICsIT (Pixellated Imaging CaeSium Iodide Telescope) is the high energy detector of the IBIS telescope on-board the INTEGRAL satellite. It consists of 4096 independent detection units, ~0.7 cm^2 in cross-section, operating in the energy…

We report about the status of the PICsIT layer of the imager IBIS. The instrument has been tested in both Spectral Imaging and Spectral Timing Mode. PICsIT Single Events, Multiple and ISGRI data of the Crab are simultaneously fitted to a…

During the first six months of operations, six Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been detected in the field of view of the INTEGRAL instruments and localized by the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS): a software for the automatic search of GRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mereghetti

Context: The transient hard X-ray source IGR J11321-5311 was discovered by INTEGRAL on June 2005, during observations of the Crux spiral arm. To date, this is the only detection of the source to be reported by any X/gamma-ray mission. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , P. Ubertini

INTEGRAL/SPI is a coded mask instrument observing since 2002 in the keV to MeV energy range, which covers the peak of the $\nu F\nu$ spectrum of most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Since its launch in 2008, Fermi/GBM has been the primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Björn Biltzinger , Jochen Greiner , J. Michael Burgess , Thomas Siegert

(Abridged) GRB 061122 is one of the brightest GRBs detected within INTEGRAL's field of view to date. The two gamma-ray detectors on INTEGRAL were used to investigate the spectral characteristics of GRB 061122. A search for linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. McGlynn , S. Foley , B. McBreen , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , D. J. Clark , A. J. Dean , A. Martin-Carrillo , R. O'Connor

We present results of an analysis of a sample of bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by Fermi-GBM up to more than 1 MeV, which were collected during six years of Fermi operations. In particular, we focus on the GRB durations over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Enrico Peretti , Francesco Longo

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 degree Field of view (FoV) SPI is able to trigger and to localize GRBs.…

We analyzed data obtained by the SPI telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory to search for short transient events with a duration from 1 ms to a few tens of seconds. An algorithm for identifying gamma-ray events against the background of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Yu. Minaev , A. S. Pozanenko , S. V. Molkov , S. A. Grebenev

Polarization measurements provide direct insight into the nature of astrophysical processes. Unfortunately, only a few instruments are available for this kind of measurements at gamma-ray energies, and the sources need to be very bright.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Gotz , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , F. Daigne , Z. Bosnjak

In this paper we first review the results obtained by the INTEGRAL mission in the domain of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), thanks to the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System, which is able to deliver near real-time alerts for GRBs detected within the IBIS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 D Gotz , C. Gouiffes , J. Rodriguez , P. Laurent , E. Jourdain , J. P. Roques , S. Mereghetti , S. Lutovinonv , V. Savchenko , L. Hanlon , A. Martin-Carrillo , P. Moran

All of the observations performed with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory during the first one and a half years of its in-orbit operation (from February 10, 2003, through July 2, 2004) have been analyzed to find X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , R. A. Sunyaev

We report on the first census of INTEGRAL/IBIS detections ($\gtrsim 4\sigma$ significance) above 100 keV based on the Core Program and public Open time observations up to April 2005. There are 49 sources detected in the 100-150 keV band of…

The Gamma-ray Transients Monitor (GTM) on board the Formosat-8B (FS-8B) satellite is designed to detect and localize Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). By utilizing 2+2 CITIROC chips to manipulate 4+4 detectors, which are composed of GAGG(Ce)…