Searching for Unmodeled Sources Using the Earth Occultation Data from the Fermi GBM

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2011-11-01

arxiv.org/abs/1111.0345v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

2011 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C110509

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Employing the 12 NaI detectors in the Fermi GBM, the Earth Occultation Technique (EOT) can be used to measure the fluxes of x-ray and gamma-ray sources. Each time a source passes behind the Earth (or emerges from behind the Earth), a step-like feature is produced in the detector count rate. With a predefined catalog of source positions, the times of the occultation steps can be calculated, the individual steps fit, and the fluxes derived. However, in order to find new sources and generate a complete catalog, a method is needed for generating an image of the sky. An imaging algorithm has been developed to generate all-sky images using the GBM data. Here we present imaging results from ~2.5 years of data in the 12-25 keV and 100-300 keV energy bands.

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