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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bissaldi, E.
• von Kienlin, A.
• Lichti, G.
• Steinle, H.
• Bhat, P. N.
• Briggs, M. S.
• Fishman, G. J.
• Hoover, A. S.
• Kippen, R. M.
• Krumrey, M.
• Gerlach, M.
• Connaughton, V.
• Diehl, R.
• Greiner, J.
• van der Horst, A. J.
• Kouveliotou, C.
• McBreen, S.
• Meegan, C. A.
• Paciesas, W. S.
• Preece, R. D.
• Wilson-Hodge, C. A.

Titel

Ground-based calibration and characterization of the Fermi gamma-ray burst monitor detectors

Ist Teil von

• Experimental astronomy, 2009-05, Vol.24 (1-3), p.47-88

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.