High Redshift GRBs observed by GLAST

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207985· OSTI ID:20798712

Omodei, Nicola ^[1]

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1. INFN Pisa, Largo B.Pontecorvo, 3 56100 Pisa (Italy)

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is the next generation satellite for high energy astronomy. The flight hardware production is now complete, the sixteen towers have been integrated into the flight grid and the ACD is already placed onsite. The detector will now be integrated with the spacecraft in the next few months. GLAST will be launched in 2007 and it will cover the energy range from 10 keV to more than 300 GeV. Inspiring ourself to the huge explosion observed the 4th September of 2005 by the Swift mission, we use the full simulation chain developed by the GLAST collaboration to simulate an high-redshift Gamma-Ray Burst, combining all the information available in literature on GRB 050904 with some assumptions, especially for the high energy emission. Our simulation takes care both of the effect of the cosmological expansion on the spectra and on the light curve, as well as the absorption of radiation by photon-photon interaction with the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL)

• OSTI ID: 20798712
• 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: 10.1063/1.2207985; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ABSORPTION
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
DIAGRAMS
EMISSION
ENERGY SPECTRA
GAMMA ASTRONOMY
GAMMA DETECTION
GAMMA RADIATION
GEV RANGE
KEV RANGE
PHOTON-PHOTON INTERACTIONS
SIMULATION
TELESCOPE COUNTERS