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The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detects gamma-rays in the energy range 8 keV - 40 MeV. We developed a new background fitting process of these data, based on the motion of the satellite. Here we summarize this method, called…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-14 Dorottya Szécsi , Zsolt Bagoly , József Kóbori , Lajos G. Balázs , István Horváth

The supporting instrument on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is a wide-field gamma-ray monitor composed of 14 individual scintillation detectors, with a field of view which encompasses the entire…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gerard Fitzpatrick , Sheila McBreen , Valerie Connaughton , Michael Briggs , the GBM Team

We present a method for determining the background of Fermi GBM GRBs using the satellite positional information and a physical model. Since the polynomial fitting method typically used for GRBs is generally only indicative of the background…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-11 Dorottya Szécsi , Zsolt Bagoly , József Kóbori , István Horváth , Lajos G. Balázs

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

We present the first physically motivated background model for the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi satellite. Such a physically motivated background model has the potential to significantly improve the scientific output of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Björn Biltzinger , Felix Kunzweiler , Jochen Greiner , Kilian Toelge , J. Michael Burgess

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

Studying the GRBs' gamma-ray spectra may reveal some physical information of Gamma-ray Bursts. The Fermi satellite observed more than two thousand GRBs. The FERMIGBRST catalog contains GRB parameters (peak energy, spectral indices,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-06 Istvan I. Racz , Lajos G. Balázs , Zsolt Bagoly , Istvan Horvath , L. Viktor Tóth

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are detectable out to very large distances and as such are potentially powerful cosmological probes. Historically, the angular distribution of GRBs provided important information about their origin and physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi spacecraft currently operates on several trigger algorithms on various time scales and energy ranges. Motivated by the pursuit of faint Gamma-Ray Bursts (e.g. the elusive class of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 David Gruber

After seven years of science operation, the Fermi mission has brought great advances in the study of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Over 1600 GRBs have been detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and more than 100 of these are also detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-19 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Francesco Longo , Nicola Omodei , Giacomo Vianello , Andreas von Kienlin

Since its successful launch in June 2008, the {\it Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made important breakthroughs in the understanding of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomemon. The combination of the GBM and the LAT instruments onboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Frederic Piron , Valerie Connaughton

The secondary instrument onboard Fermi, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all sky monitor consisting of 14 scintillation detectors. When analysing transient events such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Solar Flares (SFs) the background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-17 Gerard Fitzpatrick , Valerie Connaughton , Sheila McBreen , Dave Tierney

Recent Fermi results have focused attention on gamma-ray burst's (GRB) prompt emission phase, which is rich in phenomenology and poorly understood. The broad band spectra observed by Fermi does not fit into any of the frameworks of existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Asaf Pe'er

The recent years witnessed a dramatic improvement in our knowledge of the phenomenology and physics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). However, our "pillars of knowledge" remain a few, while many aspects remain obscure and not understood. There is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gabriele Ghisellini

The physical origin of the >0.1 GeV emission detected from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi satellite has not yet been completely understood. In this work we consider the GeV light curves of ten GRBs with measured redshift detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Nava , G. Vianello , N. Omodei , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti , F. Longo , R. Desiante , R. Barniol Duran

Gamma rays from extragalactic sources are attenuated by pair-production interactions with diffuse photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a source of high-redshift photons above 10 GeV, and could be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rudy C. Gilmore , Francisco Prada , Joel R. Primack

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has more than doubled the number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected above 100 MeV within its first year of operation. Thanks to the very wide energy range covered by Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jonathan Granot

We studied the distribution of the GRBs, observed by the Fermi satellite, in the multidimensional parameter space consisting of the duration, Fluence, Peak flux and Peak energy (if it was available). About 10% of the Fermi bursts was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-25 L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath , Z. Bagoly , J. Kobori

Before the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope there were only a handful of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected at high energies (above 100 MeV), while several different suggestions have been made for possible high-energy emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jonathan Granot

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi satellite detected emission above 20 MeV only in a small fraction of the long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) at 8 keV-40 MeV. Those bursts that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-08 Dafne Guetta
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