LOCALIZATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS USING THE
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                    GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR

Connaughton, V.; Briggs, M. S.; Goldstein, A.; Meegan, C.; Pačiesas, W. S.; Preece, R. D.; Wilson-Hodge, C.; Gibby, M. H.; Greiner, J.; Gruber, D.; Jenke, P.; Kippen, R. M.; Pelassa, V.; Xiong, S. L.; Yu, H. F.; Bhat, P. N.; Burgess, J. Michael; Byrne, David; Fitzpatrick, G.; Foley, S.; Giles, M. M.; Guiriec, S.; Horst, A. J. van der; Kienlin, A. von; McBreen, S.; McGlynn, S.; Tierney, David L.; Zhang, Bin-Bin

doi:10.1088/0067-0049/216/2/32

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“…The lower fraction of GBM short GRBs (20.7%) compared to the one measured by BATSE (24%) is due to an excess of long events detected by GBM's longer timescale trigger algorithms. about 10% of GBM-detected GRBs and extends to approximately 14 o [3]. Moreover, probability maps are produced for every burst through convolution of the statistical uncertainty with the best current model for the systematic errors.…”

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The Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogs: The First Six Years

Bissaldi

Bhat

2017

EPJ Web Conf.

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Abstract. Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has triggered and located on average approximately two gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) every three days. Here we present the main results from the latest two catalogs provided by the Fermi-GBM science team, namely the third GBM GRB catalog [1] and the first GBM time-resolved spectral catalog [2]. The intention of the GBM GRB catalog is to provide information to the community on the most important observables of the GBM detected bursts. It comprises 1405 triggers identified as GRBs. For each one, location and main characteristics of the prompt emission, the duration, the peak flux and the fluence are derived. The GBM time-resolved spectral catalog presents high-quality time-resolved spectral analysis with high temporal and spectral resolution of the brightest bursts observed by Fermi GBM in a shorter period than the former catalog, namely four years. It comprises 1491 spectra from 81 bursts. Distributions of parameters, statistics of the parameter populations, parameter-parameter and parameter-uncertainty correlations, and their exact values are obtained.

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The Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogs: The First Six Years

Bissaldi

Bhat

2017

EPJ Web Conf.

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“…The method is adapted from the method used for GBM localization of GRBs (Connaughton et al 2015), with a cruder background fitting method. We use data between 12 and 50 keV and the model rates more suitable for sources with softer energy spectra: galactic transients (power law with index = −2), solar flares (power law with index = −3), and type I XRBs (blackbody with temperature = 4 keV).…”

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“…These events appear to have a hard spectrum and thus might be initially classified as uGRBs, but unlike GRBs their light curves in the range 50-300 keV are very similar for all 12 NaI detectors. This produces a poor c 2 in the localization fit and we use a cut-off in c 2 of 1000 to reject these particle events, more tolerant than reported in Connaughton et al (2015) because the quality of the background fits over the low-energy channel data analyzed here is more variable, and even real astrophysical events may produce localizations with large c 2 values. All other events are considered to be XRB candidates.…”

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The Fermi–gbm Three-Year X-Ray Burst Catalog

Jenke

Linares

Connaughton

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ApJ

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The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all-sky gamma-ray monitor well known in the gamma-ray burst (GRB) community. Although GBM excels in detecting the hard, bright extragalactic GRBs, its sensitivity above 8 keV and its all-sky view make it an excellent instrument for the detection of rare, short-lived Galactic transients. In 2010 March, we initiated a systematic search for transients using GBM data. We conclude this phase of the search by presenting a three-year catalog of 1084 X-ray bursts. Using spectral analysis, location, and spatial distributions we classified the 1084 events into 752 thermonuclear X-ray bursts, 267 transient events from accretion flares and X-ray pulses, and 65 untriggered gamma-ray bursts. All thermonuclear bursts have peak blackbody temperatures broadly consistent with photospheric radius expansion (PRE) bursts. We find an average rate of 1.4 PRE bursts per day, integrated over all Galactic bursters within about 10 kpc. These include 33 and 10 bursts from the ultra-compact X-ray binaries 4U0614+09 and 2S0918-549, respectively. We discuss these recurrence times and estimate the total mass ejected by PRE bursts in our Galaxy.

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“…• (Connaughton et al 2015). The first GBM onflight localization, distributed as a GCN notice, had an error radius of 3.85…”

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The optical identification of events with poorly defined locations: the case of the Fermi GBM GRB 140801A

Lipunov

Gorosabel

Pruzhinskaya

et al. 2015

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We report the early discovery of the optical afterglow of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 140801A in the 137 deg 2 3-σ error-box of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). MASTER is the only observatory that automatically react to all Fermi alerts. GRB 140801A is one of the few GRBs whose optical counterpart was discovered solely from its GBM localization. The optical afterglow of GRB 140801A was found by MASTER Global Robotic Net 53 sec after receiving the alert, making it the fastest optical detection of a GRB from a GBM error-box. Spectroscopy obtained with the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 6-m BTA of SAO RAS reveals a redshift of z = 1.32. We performed optical and near-infrared photometry of GRB 140801A using different telescopes with apertures ranging from 0.4-m to 10.4-m. GRB 140801A is a typical burst in many ways. The restframe bolometric isotropic energy release and peak energy of the burst is E iso = 5.54 +0.26−0.24 × 10 52 erg and Ep,rest ≃ 280 keV, respectively, which is consistent with the Amati relation. The absence of a jet break in the optical light curve provides a lower limit on the half-opening angle of the jet θ = 6.1 deg.The observed E peak is consistent with the limit derived from the Ghirlanda relation. The joint Fermi GBM and Konus-Wind analysis shows that GRB 140801A could belong to the class of intermediate duration. The rapid detection of the optical counterpart of GRB 140801A is especially important regarding the upcoming experiments with large coordinate error-box areas.

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LOCALIZATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS USING THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR

Cited by 112 publications

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The Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogs: The First Six Years

The Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogs: The First Six Years

The Fermi–gbm Three-Year X-Ray Burst Catalog

The optical identification of events with poorly defined locations: the case of the Fermi GBM GRB 140801A

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