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The Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) will significantly augment the science return from the Fermi Observatory in the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The primary objective of GBM is to extend the energy range over which bursts are observed…

We discuss the preliminary results of spectral analysis simulations involving anticipated correlated multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Stamatikos , Takanori Sakamoto , David L. Band

In this paper we will present the first results of applying a digital processing technology in low-level gamma spectroscopy with HPGE detectors. An experimental gamma spectrometer using Flash ADC module is built and tested. The test system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kihm , V. F. Bobrakov , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

We present systematic spectral analyses of GRBs detected with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) during its entire nine years of operation. This catalog contains two types of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-02 A. Goldstein , R. D. Preece , R. S. Mallozzi , M. S. Briggs , G. J. Fishman , C. Kouveliotou , W. S. Pacieses , J. M. Burgess

Laser speckle, the granular intensity pattern arising from random optical interference, provides a high-dimensional encoding of spectral information that can be exploited for precision metrology. Speckle-based spectrometers have advanced…

The calibration procedures for data collected for Argus and the 4mm Receiver instruments on the GBT are presented. The measured beam size, aperture efficiency, and main-beam efficiency are derived for the range of observing frequencies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 David T. Frayer , Ronald J. Maddalena , Steven White , Galen Watts , Amanda Kepley , Jialu Li , Andrew I. Harris

The GigaTracKer (GTK) is the beam spectrometer of the CERN NA62 experiment. The detector features challenging design specifications, in particular a peak particle flux reaching up to 2.0 MHz/mm$^2$, a single hit time resolution smaller than…

Chirped Bragg volume gratings (CBGs) offer a useful alternative for spectral analysis, but increasing the bandwidth necessitates increasing the device area. In contrast, recently developed rotated CBGs (r-CBGs), in which the Bragg structure…

We experimentally demonstrate the principle of an on-chip submillimeter wave filter bank spectrometer, using superconducting microresonators as narrow band-separation filters. The filters are made of NbTiN/SiNx/NbTiN microstrip line…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-24 A. Endo , C. Sfiligoj , S. J. C. Yates , J. J. A. Baselmans , D. J. Thoen , S. M. H. Javadzadeh , P. P. van der Werf , A. M. Baryshev , T. M. Klapwijk

We show that Si MOSFETs, AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, AlGaAs/InGaAs HEMTs, and p-diamond FETs with feature sizes ranging from 20 nm to 130 nm could operate at room temperature as THz spectrometers in the frequency range from 120 GHz to 9.3 THz with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Xueqing Liu , Trond Ytterdal , Michael Shur

Center for the Gravitational-Wave Universe at Seoul National University has been operating its main observational facility, the 7-Dimensional Telescope (7DT) since October 2023. Located at El Sauce Observatory in Chilean Rio Hurtado Valley,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Ji Hoon Kim , Myungshin Im , Hyung Mok Lee , Seo-Won Chang

Dual sideband (2SB) receivers are well suited for the spectral observation of complex astronomical signals over a wide frequency range. They are extensively used in radio astronomy, their main advantages being to avoid spectral confusion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Ricardo Finger , Patricio Mena , Nicolas Reyes , Rafael Rodriguez , Leonardo Bronfman

Recent advancements in silicon photonics are enabling the development of chip-scale photonics devices for sensing and signal processing applications, among which on-chip spectrometers are of particular interest for precision wavelength…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Uttam Paudel , Todd S. Rose

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…

Driven by the growing demand for miniaturized spectrometers for in-situ analysis, and point-of-care diagnostics, conventional spectrometers are often constrained by bulky architectures and pathlength-limited spectral resolution. Achieving…

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…

We present the development and performance of a Fourier transformation (FT) based Raman spectrometer working with visible laser (532 nm) excitation. It is generally thought that FT-Raman spectrometers are not viable in the visible range…

The SPECtrophotometer for TRansmission spectroscopy of exoplanets (SPECTR) is a new low-resolution optical (3800 {\AA} - 6850 {\AA}) spectrophotometer installed at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) 1.8 m telescope. SPECTR…

The next-generation mm/sub-mm/far-IR astronomy will in part be enabled by advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. The Prime-Cam instrument of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), featuring the largest array of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Ruixuan , Xie , Adrian K. Sinclair , James Burgoyne , Scott Chapman , Anthony Huber

There is no consensus on the emission mechanism of $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs). A synchrotron model can produce $\gamma$-ray spectra with the empirical Band function form, from a piece-wise two-power-law electron energy distribution (2EPLS).…

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