In flight performance and first results of FREGATE

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2002-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202515v1

AIP Conf.Proc. 662 (2003) 3-16

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Invited lecture at the Woods Hole 2001 GRB Conference, 8 pages, 15 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1579292

The gamma-ray detector of HETE-2, called FREGATE, has been designed to detect gamma-ray bursts in the energy range [6-400] keV. Its main task is to alert the other instruments of the occurrence of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and to provide the spectral coverage of the GRB prompt emission in hard X-rays and soft gamma-rays. FREGATE was switched on on October 16, 2000, one week after the successful launch of HETE-2, and has been continuously working since then. We describe here the main characteristics of the instrument, its in-flight performance and we briefly discuss the first GRB observations.

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