Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2009
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GAMMA-RAY BURST: Sixth Huntsville Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1133, pp. 34-36 (2009).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Astronomical And Space-Research Instrumentation, Radiation Detectors
Scientific paper
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched on June 11, 2008 carries two experiments onboard-the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). The primary mission of the GBM instrument is to support the LAT in observing γ-ray bursts (GRBs) by providing low-energy measurements with high temporal and spectral resolution as well as rapid burst locations over a large field-of-view (>=8 sr). The GBM will complement the LAT measurements by observing GRBs in the energy range 8 keV to 40 MeV, the region of the spectral turnover in most GRBs. The GBM detector signals are processed by the onboard digital processing unit (DPU). We describe some of the hardware features of the DPU and its expected limitations during intense triggers.
Bhat Narayan P.
Briggs Michael Stephen
Connaughton Valerie V.
Diehl Roland
Fishman Gerald J.
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