Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with INTEGRAL

Journal Article · Fri May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207881· OSTI ID:20798680

McGlynn, S; Hanlon, L; McBreen, B; Foley, S; French, J; Melady, G ^[1]; McBreen, S ^[2]; Kienlin, A von ^[3]; Preece, R ^[4]

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1. School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 (Ireland)
2. Astrophysics Missions Division, RSSD of ESA, ESTEC, Noordwijk (Netherlands)
3. Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching (Germany)
4. Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Huntsville (United States)

The INTEGRAL satellite has two coded-mask {gamma}-ray instruments; the spectrometer (SPI) which is optimised for high resolution {gamma}-ray line spectroscopy, and the imager (IBIS) which can localise GRBs to a precision of a few arcminutes. INTEGRAL was launched 3 years ago and the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) has detected 33 long duration GRBs, the most intense burst by far being GRB 041219 which also had prompt optical emission associated with it. The {gamma}-ray properties of some of these bursts are presented with particular emphasis on spectral results. A subset of 6 GRBs were observed with XMM-Newton and a selection of these results is presented. New results from recent GRBs are also discussed.

• OSTI ID: 20798680
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 836, Issue 1; Conference: 16. Maryland astrophysics conference, Washington, DC (United States), 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2207881; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ACCURACY
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
GAMMA DETECTION
GAMMA RADIATION
GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY
PHOTON EMISSION
RESOLUTION