Current Status of the Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM)

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aipc.1133...91y&link_type=abstract

GAMMA-RAY BURST: Sixth Huntsville Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1133, pp. 91-93 (2009).

Physics

Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Scintillation Detectors

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The Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM) consists of 20 BGO anti-coincidence scintillators for the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD). The WAM has a wide field of view (FOV), about half of the whole sky, a large collecting area, 800 cm2, and broad-band energy coverage from 50 to 5000 keV. Thus it has been designed to work as a gamma-ray burst detector. For the three years since Suzaku launch in July 2005, the WAM has been working very well. About 500 GRBs have been detected through the end of 2008, corresponding to a detection rate of ~140 GRBs per year. The current status of the WAM is presented in this paper.

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