Computer Science – Databases
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aps..aprs10013m&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2004, May 1-4, 2004, Denver, Colorado April 2004, MEETING ID: APR04, abstract #S10.013
Computer Science
Databases
Scientific paper
The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) observatory, scheduled for launch in 2007, comprises the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM). These two instruments on GLAST will provide an unprecedented large energy range coverage (over six decades) for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and for observations of spectral changes that are known to occur within GRBs. GBM is a collaboration between the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrrestrial Physics. It consists of an array of NaI and BGO scintillation detectors operating in the 10 keV to 25 MeV range. The field of view includes the entire unocculted sky when the observatory is pointing close to the zenith. The GBM will enhance LAT observations of GRBs by extending the spectral coverage into the range of current GRB databases, and will provide a trigger for re-orienting the spacecraft to observe delayed emission from bursts outside the LAT field of view. GBM is expected to trigger on about 200 bursts per year, and will provide on-board locations of strong bursts accurate to better than 10 degrees.
Fishman Gerald
Meegan Charles
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