The 52 Brightest and Hardest GRBs Detected with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on Fermi

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Aug 2011

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GAMMA RAY BURSTS 2010. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1358, pp. 13-16 (2011).

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Scintillators, Telemetry, Gamma-Rays, Spectroscopy, Scintillation Detectors, Telemetry: Remote Control, Remote Sensing, Radar, Gamma-Ray, Photometric, Polarimetric, And Spectroscopic Instrumentation

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We present our results of the temporal and spectral analysis of a sample of 52 bright and hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first year of operation (July 2008-July 2009). Our sample was selected from a total of 253 GBM GRBs based on the event peak count rate measured between 0.2 and 40 MeV. The final sample comprised 34 long and 18 short GRBs. A first by-product of our selection methodology is the determination of a detection threshold from the GBM data alone, above which GRBs most likely will be detected in the MeV/GeV range with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi. This predictor will be very useful for future multiwavelength GRB follow ups with ground and space based observatories. Further we have estimated the burst durations up to 10 MeV and for the first time expanded the duration-energy relationship in the GRB light curves to high energies. Finally, we performed time-integrated spectral analysis of all 52 bursts and compared their spectral parameters with those obtained with the larger data sample of the BATSE data. We find that the two parameter data sets are similar and confirm that short GRBs are in general harder than longer ones.

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