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Three years after the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, both of its scientific instruments are operating perfectly and continuing to make breakthroughs in astrophysics, particle physics, and atmospheric science. I report here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-27 V. Connaughton , the GBM Team

Launched on June 11, 2008, the LAT instrument onboard the $Fermi$ Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided a rare opportunity to study high energy photon emission from gamma-ray bursts. Although the majority of such events (27) have been iden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Weikang Zheng , Carl W. Akerlof , Shashi B. Pandey , Timothy A. McKay , Binbin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Takanori Sakamoto

Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are…

Context. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long bursts uniquely detected at radio frequencies. FRB 131104 is the only case for which a $\gamma$-ray transient positionally and temporally consistent was claimed. This high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 R. Martone , C. Guidorzi , R. Margutti , L. Nicastro , L. Amati , F. Frontera , M. Marongiu , M. Orlandini , E. Virgilli

We report on recent inter-calibration studies featuring Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) based upon correlated observations of GRBs 080804 and 080810, via their resultant joint spectral analysis.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-21 Michael Stamatikos

In the era of second generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) will be among the most promising astrophysical events for joint electromagnetic and gravitational wave observation. A targeted search…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 A. R. Williamson , C. Biwer , S. Fairhurst , I. W. Harry , E. Macdonald , D. Macleod , V. Predoi

We present a two-parameter model of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) in the 0.1-100 GeV range as measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite. The EGB can be fully explained as the sum of three distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Massimo Cavadini , Ruben Salvaterra , Francesco Haardt

The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board Fermi allows to study the spectra of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) over an unprecedented wide energy range (8 keV - 35 MeV). We compare the spectral properties of short and long GRBs detected by the GBM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Gabriele Ghisellini , Annalisa Celotti

Gamma-ray Transient Monitor (GTM) is an all-sky monitor onboard the Distant Retrograde Orbit-A (DRO-A) satellite with the scientific objective of detecting gamma-ray transients ranging from 20 keV to 1 MeV. GTM is equipped with 5 Gamma-ray…

The LAT instrument on the Fermi mission will reveal the rich spectral and temporal gamma-ray burst phenomena in the > 100 MeV band. The synergy with Fermi's GBM detectors will link these observations to those in the well explored 10-1000…

Using a wavelet decomposition technique, we have extracted the Hurst exponent for a sample of 46 long and 22 short Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard the Fermi satellite. This exponent is a scaling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Glen MacLachlan , Ashwin Shenoy , Eda Sonbas , Rob Coyne , Kalvir Dhuga , Ali Eskandarian , Leonard Maximon , William Parke

The Gamma-Ray Monitor (GRM) is a key payload of the Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission, which is designed to detect gamma ray bursts (GRBs) within the energy range of 15 keV to 5 MeV. The GRM…

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is supposed to be released from the relativistic jet launched from the central engine. Apart from the non-thermal nature of the spectra in a majority of GRBs, there is evidence for the presence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Ding-Fang Hu , Jin-Jun Geng , Hao-Xuan Gao , Jing-Zhi Yan , Xue-Feng Wu

The typical detection rate of $\sim1$ gamma-ray burst (GRB) per day by the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) provides a valuable opportunity to further our understanding of GRB physics. However, the large uncertainty of the…

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is highly beamed, and understanding the jet geometry and beaming configuration can provide information on the poorly understood central engine and circum-burst environment. Prior to the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Eric Thrane , Salvatore Vitale

We present the SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor) mission, that is being developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and the French Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Gotz , J. Paul , S. Basa , J. Wei , S. N. Zhang , J. -L. Atteia , D. Barret , B. Cordier , A. Claret , J. Deng , X. Fan , J. Y. Hu , M. Huang , P. Mandrou , S. Mereghetti , Y. Qiu , B. Wu

Fermi LAT (Large Area Telescope) and GBM (Gamma ray Burst Monitor) observations of GRBs are briefly reviewed, keeping in mind EGRET expectations. Using gamma\gamma constraints on outflow Lorentz factors, leptonic models are pitted against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Charles D. Dermer

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument onboard, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics and in particular for the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which are short flashes of -rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Aurelien Bouvier

SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor) is a future Chinese-French satellite mission which is dedicated to Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies. Its anti-solar pointing strategy makes the Earth cross the field of view of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Donghua Zhao , Bertrand Cordier , Patrick Sizun , Bobing Wu , Yongwei Dong , Stéphane Schanne , Liming Song , Jiangtao Liu

In this catalog we present the updated set of spectral analyses of GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first four years of operation. It contains two types of spectra, time-integrated spectral fits and…