GRB Simulations in GLAST

Journal Article · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2737401· OSTI ID:21057318

Omodei, Nicola ^[1]; Battelino, Milan ^[2]; Komin, Nukri ^[3]; Longo, Francesco ^[4]; McEnery, Julie ^[5]; Norris, Jay ^[6]; Ryde, Felix ^[7]

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1. INFN of Pisa, Polo Fibonacci Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Pisa, 56127 (Italy)
2. Stockholm Observatory, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
3. LPTA, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier (France)
4. INFN of Trieste, Padriciano 99, Trieste, 34012 (Italy)
5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771 (United States)
6. University of Denver, Denver CO 80208 (United States)
7. Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall of 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a pair conversion telescope built with a high precision silicon tracker, a segmented CsI electromagnetic calorimeter and a plastic anticoincidence shield. The LAT will survey the sky in the energy range between 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV, shedding light on many issues left open by its highly successful predecessor EGRET. LAT will observe Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) in an energy range never explored before; to tie these frontier observations to the better-known properties at lower energies, a second instrument, the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) will provide important spectra and timing in the 10 keV to 30 MeV range. We briefly present the instruments onboard the GLAST satellite, their synergy in the GRB observations and the work done so far by the collaboration in simulation, analysis, and GRB sensitivity estimation.

• OSTI ID: 21057318
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 906; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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