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S. M. Matz J. E. Grove W. N. Johnson J. D. Kurfess G. H. Share G. J. Fishman C. A. Meegan 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):127-130
The BATSE and OSSE instrument teams have modified flight software to promptly (within 2 min of trigger) slew the OSSE detectors to burst locations determined on-board by BATSE. This enables OSSE to make sensitive searches for prompt and delayed post-burst line and continuum emission above 50 keV. In the best cases our sensitivity will be more than an order of magnitude better than any other search in this energy range. We expect to slew to 1–2 bursts per month, based on the OSSE FOV and BATSE event rate. Detections or limits from continued operation of this system may provide significant constraints on burst models. As an example of the observations made using this system, we present preliminary limits for post-burst emission from GRB 950223 on several time scales. 相似文献
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Charles Meegan 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,261(1-4):215-224
There has been significant progress recently in our understanding of gamma-ray bursts. The long-sought counterparts at other
wavelengths have finally been found for a few bursts. This breakthrough is the result of coordinated observations involving
several satellites and ground-based optical and radio observatories. In one case, GRB970508, redshifted absorption lines have
been detected, finally settling the debate about the distance scale. The consensus is that the burst sources lie at cosmological
distances, requiring at least ∼ 1051ergs to be emitted in gamma rays in just a few seconds. The gamma radiation is thought to be produced by shocks in a highly
relativistic fireball. Many mysteries remain. There is no consensus on the nature of the sources, although coalescing neutron
stars are the leading candidate. There is evidence that the sources of the faintest bursts may be at redshifts above 2. If
so, gamma-ray bursts may ultimately tell us something about the early Universe.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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S. D. Barthelmy P. Butterworth T. L. Cline N. Gehrels G. J. Fishman C. Kouveliotou C. A. Meegan 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):235-238
The celestial coordinates of gamma-ray burst sources observed with BATSE on GRO are automatically determined and distributed in real time to members of the global scientific community. These data are now being used by more than 20 operations to enable searches for associated transients in a variety of other wavelength or energy regimes to identify the burst source objects. The minimum total delay time from the onset of a burst to the receipt of its coordinates by distant experimenters can be under 4 sec, less than the duration of a typical GRB, and the maximum total delay is 7 sec, or longer, depending on the distribution method. Some improvements to the BACODINE system and a summary of the follow-up observations made by some of the sites are given. 相似文献
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C. B. Luginbuhl F. J. Vrba R. Hudec D. Hartmann K. Hurley M. Boër M. Niel M. Sommer C. Kouveliotou C. Meegan G. Fishman 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):289-292
We present preliminary results from deep optical searches of small (5 arcmin2) GRB error boxes determined using the Third Interplanetary Network (IPN3). Two of these fields also have been found to have historical OT events located within the IPN3 error boxes. We compare the preliminary results of these searches to those reported for the larger IPN1 error boxes. The small size of the IPN3 error boxes should allow a test of the hypothesis suggested by the IPN1 study that there are excess QSOs associated with the GRB fields. 相似文献
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Hakkila J. Meegan C. Horack J. Pendleton G. Briggs M. Paciesas W. Emslie G. Mallozzi R. 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):369-372
Constraints are found on the gamma-ray burst luminosity function from an analysis of the combined BATSE/PVO intensity distribution. If bursts originate in an extended Galactic halo, then the intrinsic luminosity range is narrow, with bursts spanning only a factor of five or less in luminosity. If bursts originate in a simple Friedmann cosmology with = 1 and = 0, then very few luminosity constraints exist.National Research Council Fellow at NASA/MSFC 相似文献
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J. Hakkila V. Vo C. Meegan J. Horack G. Fishman D. Hartmann G. Pendleton M. Briggs W. Paciesas 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):23-26
A repeater statistic (derived from the two-point angular correlation function and accounting for location errors) is used to identify constraints on the rate of burst repetition from the BATSE 1B catalog. Because of the anisotropic sky exposure, repeating sources should create additional effects in the large-scale distribution of close burst pairs.National Research Council Fellow at NASA/MSFC 相似文献
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E. Bissaldi A. von Kienlin G. Lichti H. Steinle P. N. Bhat M. S. Briggs G. J. Fishman A. S. Hoover R. M. Kippen M. Krumrey M. Gerlach V. Connaughton R. Diehl J. Greiner A. J. van der Horst C. Kouveliotou S. McBreen C. A. Meegan W. S. Paciesas R. D. Preece C. A. Wilson-Hodge 《Experimental Astronomy》2009,24(1-3):47-88
One of the scientific objectives of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) was designed to detect and localize bursts for the Fermi mission. By means of an array of 12 NaI(Tl) (8 keV to 1 MeV) and two BGO (0.2 to 40 MeV) scintillation detectors, GBM extends the energy range (20 MeV to > 300 GeV) of Fermi’s main instrument, the Large Area Telescope, into the traditional range of current GRB databases. The physical detector response of the GBM instrument to GRBs is determined with the help of Monte Carlo simulations, which are supported and verified by on-ground individual detector calibration measurements. We present the principal instrument properties, which have been determined as a function of energy and angle, including the channel-energy relation, the energy resolution, the effective area and the spatial homogeneity. 相似文献
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René Hudec Pavel Spurný Jan Florián Jaroslav Boček Miloš Tichý Jana Tichá Libor Vyskočil Wolfgang Wenzel Scott Barthelmy Thomas Cline Niels Gehrels Gerald Fishman Chryssa Kouveliotou Charles Meegan Asen Mutafov 《Experimental Astronomy》1997,7(4):319-323
We present first preliminary results obtained with the European Observation Network consisting of 9 observatories in the Czech Republic, Germany and Bulgaria. We also discuss related problems such as the background of unknown variable stars and suggest a strategy for work in this area. 相似文献
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D. Band L. Ford J. Matteson J. P. Lestrade B. Teegarden B. Schaefer T. Cline M. Briggs W. Paciesas G. Pendleton R. Austin G. Fishman C. Meegan R. Wilson 《Experimental Astronomy》1992,2(5):307-330
We describe the channel-to-energy calibration of the Spectroscopy Detectors of the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO). These detectors consist of NaI(Tl) crystals viewed by photomultiplier tubes whose output in turn is measured by a pulse height analyzer. The calibration of these detectors has been complicated by frequent gain changes and by nonlinearities specific to the BATSE detectors. Nonlinearities in the light output from the NaI crystal and in the pulse height analyzer are shifted relative to each other by changes in the gain of the photomultiplier tube. We present the analytical model which is the basis of our calibration methodology, and outline how the empirical coefficients in this approach were determined. We also describe the complications peculiar to the Spectroscopy Detectors, and how our understanding of the detectors' operation led us to a solution to these problems. 相似文献
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D. A. Green C. A. -C. Dessenne P. J. Warner D. J. Titterington E. M. Waldram S. D. Barthelmy T. L. Cline N. Gehrels D. Palmer G. J. Fishman C. Kouveliotou C. A. Meegan 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,231(1-2):281-284
The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) is being used to search for prompt radio emission from GRBs at 151 MHz. For this search a special observing mode has recently been developed; the antennas of the CLFST are split into seven groups which are spaced about 30° apart. When triggered by the real-time signals from the BACODINE system the antennas are slewed to the GRB position, with data being sampled at 1.5 or 3-s intervals. The antennas slew at about 10° per minute, so that an appreciable fraction of the sky can be accessed on timescales of a few minutes - any prompt radio emission from a GRB might be delayed by this timescale due to propagation effects. 相似文献
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