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Pulse properties of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
Suzanne Foley, Gerard Fitzpatrick, Michael S. Briggs +17
The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has triggered on over 300 terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) since its launch in June 2008. With 14…
Compton scattering in terrestrial gamma-ray flashes detected with the Fermi gamma-ray burst monitor
Gerard Fitzpatrick, Eric Cramer, Sheila McBreen +11
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are short intense flashes of gamma rays associated with lightning activity in thunderstorms. Using Monte Carlo simulations of the relativistic…
Localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
V. Connaughton, M. S. Briggs, A. Goldstein +25
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected over 1400 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) since it began science operations in July, 2008. We use a subset of over 300 GRBs localized b…
The 2nd Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: The First Four Years
Andreas von Kienlin, Charles A. Meegan, William S. Paciesas +30
This is the second of a series of catalogs of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). It extends the first two-year catalog by two more years…
Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A
LAT collaboration, GBM collaboration
The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the nature…
The First Pulse of the Extremely Bright GRB 130427A: A Test Lab for Synchrotron Shocks
R. Preece, J. Michael Burgess, A. von Kienlin +156
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine…
The First Fermi LAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
LAT Collaboration
In three years of observations since the beginning of nominal science operations in August 2008, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has obs…
Anomalies in low-energy Gamma-Ray Burst spectra with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
Dave Tierney, Sheila McBreen, Robert D. Preece +15
A Band function has become the standard spectral function used to describe the prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, deviations from this function have previ…
GRB110721A: An extreme peak energy and signatures of the photosphere
The Fermi LAT Collaboration, the GBM Collaboration, A. Pe'er
GRB110721A was observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope using its two instruments the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). The burst consisted o…
Constraining the High-Energy Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts with Fermi
LAT Collaboration, GBM Collaboration
We examine 288 GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) that fell within the field-of-view of Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) during…
The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: The First Two Years
William S. Paciesas, Charles A. Meegan, Andreas von Kienlin +26
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is designed to enhance the scientific return from Fermi in studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In its first two years of operation GBM trigger…
The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: The First Two Years
Adam Goldstein, J. Michael Burgess, Robert D. Preece +25
We present systematic spectral analyses of GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first two years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spec…
Uncovering low-level Fermi/GBM emission using orbital background subtraction
Gerard Fitzpatrick, Valerie Connaughton, Sheila McBreen +1
The secondary instrument onboard Fermi, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all sky monitor consisting of 14 scintillation detectors. When analysing transient events such as Ga…
Temporal Deconvolution study of Long and Short Gamma-Ray Burst Light curves
P. N. Bhat, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton +24
The light curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are believed to result from internal shocks reflecting the activity of the GRB central engine. Their temporal deconvolution can reveal p…
Burst and Persistent Emission Properties during the Recent Active Episode of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1841-045
Lin Lin, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Ersin Gogus +19
Swift/BAT detected the first burst from 1E 1841-045 in May 2010 with intermittent burst activity recorded through at least July 2011. Here we present Swift and Fermi/GBM observatio…
Constraints on the Synchrotron Shock Model for the Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst 090820A
J. Michael Burgess, Robert D. Preece, Matthew G. Baring +25
Discerning the radiative dissipation mechanism for prompt emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) requires detailed spectroscopic modeling that straddles the peak in the 100 keV…
GRIPS - Gamma-Ray Imaging, Polarimetry and Spectroscopy
J. Greiner, K. Mannheim, F. Aharonian +65
We propose to perform a continuously scanning all-sky survey from 200 keV to 80 MeV achieving a sensitivity which is better by a factor of 40 or more compared to the previous missi…
Rest-frame properties of 32 gamma-ray bursts observed by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
D. Gruber, J. Greiner, A. von Kienlin +27
Aims: In this paper we study the main spectral and temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Fermi/GBM. We investigate these key properties of GRBs in the rest-fra…
First-year Results of Broadband Spectroscopy of the Brightest Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts
Elisabetta Bissaldi, Andreas von Kienlin, Chryssa Kouveliotou +26
We present here 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) du…
A New Derivation of GRB Jet Opening Angles from the Prompt Gamma-Ray Emission
Adam Goldstein, Robert D. Preece, Michael S. Briggs +24
The jet opening angle of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an important parameter for determining the characteristics of the progenitor, and the information contained in the opening angle…
Detection of a spectral break in the extra hard component of GRB 090926A
Fermi-LAT, Fermi-GBM collaborations
We report on the observation of the bright, long gamma-ray burst, GRB 090926A, by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) instruments on board the \Fermi\…
Fermi/GBM observations of the ultra-long GRB 091024: A burst with an optical flash
D. Gruber, T. Krühler, S. Foley +27
In this paper we examine gamma-ray and optical data of GRB 091024, a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an extremely long duration of T90~1020 s, as observed with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst…
Detection of a Thermal Spectral Component in the Prompt Emission of GRB 100724B
Sylvain Guiriec, Valerie Connaughton, Michael S. Briggs +29
Observations of GRB 100724B with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) find that the spectrum is dominated by the typical Band functional form, which is usually taken to represen…
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of the 3 Brightest and Hardest Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed with the FGST Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
Sylvain Guiriec, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaugthon +25
From July 2008 to October 2009, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) has detected 320 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). About 20% of these e…