Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aipc..428..309c&link_type=abstract
Fourth Huntsville gamma-ray burst symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 428, pp. 309-313 (1998).
Mathematics
Logic
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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Gamma-Ray, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Spectroscopy And Spectrophotometry
Scientific paper
We present preliminary results from the analysis of 16 bright bursts that have been observed by the EGRET NaI calorimeter, or TASC. Seven bursts have been imaged in the EGRET spark chamber above 30 MeV, but in most cases the TASC data gives the highest energy spectra available for these bursts. The TASC can obtain spectral and rate information for bursts well outside the field of view of the EGRET spark chambers, and is sensitive in the energy range from 1 to 200 MeV. The spectra for these bursts are mostly consistent with a simple power law with spectral index in the range from 1.7 to 3.7, with several of the brighter bursts showing emission past 100 MeV. No high energy cutoff has been observed. These high energy photons offer important clues to the physical processes involved at the origin of burst emission. For bursts at cosmological distances extremely high bulk Lorentz factors are implied by the presence of MeV and GeV photons which have not been attenuated by pair production with the lower energy photons from the source.
Catelli Jennifer R.
Dingus Brenda Lynn
Schneid Edward J.
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