Simulations of GRB Observations with GLAST

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Dec 1998

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Abstracts of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998. Eds.:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will incorporate high sensitivity, large field of view, and precision tracker technology, providing arc minute localizations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and exploring GRB physics up to ~100 GeV. We have performed GLAST simulations based on a GRB fluence distribution scaled from the BATSE GRB peak flux and duration samples, and on spectral indices similar to the EGRET GRB sample. Results indicate that GLAST will detect and image ~230 GRBs per year, with sensitivity to 100 GeV for perhaps ten bursts. Many bright burst localizations will be comparable in size to the current InterPlanetary Network error boxes, enabling counterpart searches at longer wavelengths.

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