The GLAST burst monitor

Andreas von Kienlin; Charles A. Meegan; Giselher G. Lichti; Narayana P. Bhat; Michael S. Briggs; Valerie Connaughton; Roland Diehl; Gerald J. Fishman; Jochen Greiner; Andrew S. Hoover; R. Marc Kippen; Chryssa Kouveliotou; William S. Paciesas; Robert D. Preece; Volker Schoenfelder; Helmut Steinle; Robert B. Wilson

doi:10.1117/12.552913

11 October 2004 The GLAST burst monitor

Andreas von Kienlin, Charles A. Meegan, Giselher G. Lichti, Narayana P. Bhat, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Roland Diehl, Gerald J. Fishman, Jochen Greiner, Andrew S. Hoover, R. Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, William S. Paciesas, Robert D. Preece, Volker Schoenfelder, Helmut Steinle, Robert B. Wilson

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Proceedings Volume 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552913
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The next large NASA mission in the field of gamma-ray astronomy, GLAST, is scheduled for launch in 2007. Aside from the main instrument LAT (Large-Area Telescope), a gamma-ray telescope for the energy range between 20 MeV and > 100GeV, a secondary instrument, the GLAST burst monitor (GBM), is foreseen. With this monitor one of the key scientific objectives of the mission, the determination of the high-energy behaviour of gamma-ray bursts and transients can be ensured. Its task is to increase the detection rate of gamma-ray bursts for the LAT and to extend the energy range to lower energies (from ~10 keV to ~30 MeV). It will provide real-time burst locations over a wide FoV with sufficient accuracy to allow repointing the GLAST spacecraft. Time-resolved spectra of many bursts recorded with LAT and the burst monitor will allow the investigation of the relation between the keV and the MeV-GeV emission from GRBs over unprecedented seven decades of energy. This will help to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which gamma-rays are generated in gamma-ray bursts

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Andreas von Kienlin, Charles A. Meegan, Giselher G. Lichti, Narayana P. Bhat, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Roland Diehl, Gerald J. Fishman, Jochen Greiner, Andrew S. Hoover, R. Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, William S. Paciesas, Robert D. Preece, Volker Schoenfelder, Helmut Steinle, and Robert B. Wilson "The GLAST burst monitor", Proc. SPIE 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems, (11 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552913

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