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The observation of short gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) in the TeV energy range plays an important role in understanding the radiation mechanism and probing new areas of physics such as Lorentz invariance violation. However, no SGRB has been…

High-altitude balloon experiments are becoming very popular among universities and research institutes as they can be used for testing instruments eventually intended for space, and for simple astronomical observations of Solar System…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Akaash Srikanth , Bharat Chandra , Binukumar G Nair , Nirmal K , Margarita Safonova , Shanti Prabha , Rekhesh Mohan , Jayant Murthy , Rajini G. K

Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard AstroSat has been a prolific Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) monitor. While the 2-pixel Compton scattered events (100 - 300 keV) are used to extract sensitive spectroscopic information, the inclusion of…

We investigated the spectral evolution in the 2--700 keV energy band of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM) and localized with the Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) aboard the BeppoSAX satellite before May 1998.…

We discuss the INTEGRAL capabilities to detect a high redshift population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). First a simple comparison between other past or planned experiments (BATSE, SAX, HETE-2, Romer, Swift) and INTEGRAL instrumentation (IBIS,…

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

Ground based extensive air showers arrays can observe GRBs in the 1-1000 GeV energy range using the "single particle" techique. The sensitivity to detect a GRB as a function of the burst parameters and the detector characteristics are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Silvia Vernetto

A new method of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) has been proposed by Liang and Zhang recently. In this method, only observable quantities including the rest frame peak energy of the \nu F_\nu spectrum (E'_p), the isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) is an innovative mission aiming to observe transient high-energy events such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) through a constellation of CubeSats hosting a broadband X and gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 R. Campana , F. Fuschino , Y. Evangelista , G. Dilillo , F. Fiore

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are the most energetic events in the Universe, and provide a complementary probe of dark energy by allowing the measurement of cosmic expansion history that extends to redshifts greater than 6. Unlike Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-09 Yun Wang

We are planning a future gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission HiZ-GUNDAM to probe the early universe beyond the redshift of z > 7. Now we are developing a small prototype model of wide-field low-energy X-ray imaging detectors to observe high-z…

The emission region of $\rm \gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) is poorly constrained. The uncertainty on the size of the dissipation site spans over 4 orders of magnitude ($\rm 10^{12}-10^{17}$ cm) depending on the unknown energy composition of the…

Increasing interest in energetic particle effects on weather and climate has motivated development of a miniature scintillator-based detector intended for deployment on meteorological radiosondes or unmanned airborne vehicles. The detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-17 Karen L Aplin , Aaron A Briggs , R Giles Harrison , Graeme J Marlton

INTEGRAL has two sensitive gamma-ray instruments that have detected 46 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) up to July 2007. We present the spectral, spatial, and temporal properties of the bursts in the INTEGRAL GRB catalogue using data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 S. Foley , S. McGlynn , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , B. McBreen

The RT-2 Experiment, a low energy gamma-ray telescope, onboard CORONAS-PHOTON satellite is designed to study the temporal, spectral and spatial properties of the hard X-ray solar flares mainly in the energy range of 15 - 100 keV, which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-21 D. Debnath , A. Nandi , S. K. Chakrabarti , T. B. Katoch , A. R. Rao

The accurate localization of gamma-ray bursts remains a crucial task. While historically, improved localization have led to the discovery of afterglow emission and the realization of their cosmological distribution via redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 J. Greiner , U. Hugentobler , J. M. Burgess , F. Berlato , M. Rott , A. Tsvetkova

The Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM) is a function of the large lateral BGO shield of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) onboard Suzaku. Its large geometrical area of 800 cm^2 per side, the large stopping power for the hard X-rays and the…

I give a summary of the prompt X-/gamma-ray detections of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) with the BeppoSAX satellite and discuss some significant results obtained from the study of the prompt emission of these GRBs obtained with the BeppoSAX Gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Frontera

The Scientific Trigger Unit (UTS) is a satellite equipment designed to detect Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed by the onboard 6400 pixels camera ECLAIRs. It is foreseen to equip the low-Earth orbit French-Chinese satellite SVOM and acts as…

The high energy gamma ray sources provided by experiment EGRET on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory are examined, testing Project GRAND's ability to detect primary gamma rays by means of studying secondary muons. There is ~1.5% chance that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Carpenter , S. Desch , T. F. Lin , J. Poirier , A. Roesch

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are a powerful probe of the high redshift Universe. We present a tool to estimate the detection rate of high-z GRBs by a generic detector with defined energy band and sensitivity. We base this on a population model…