Design and development of Gamma-ray Burst Monitor for the CALET Mission
- Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan)
- ISS Science Project Team, Institute of Space and Astronautional Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (Japan)
- Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University (Japan)
We propose to provide a gamma-ray burst monitor (GBM) for the CALET mission to monitor gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) together with the CALET Imaging Calorimeter detector. The major purpose is to derive a wide-band energy spectrum of GRBs over an unprecedented 9 decades of energy (from a few keV to a few TeV) in combination with the CALET tower detector. Hence it is desirable to have the CALET-GBM covering an energy range from a few keV to about 20 MeV to avoid a gap in the observational energy bands. The design of GBM is underway to fulfill this requirement. The current detector candidate is BGO, and a LaBr (Ce) scintillator which has a superior energy resolution to that of NaI(Tl). In this paper, design and expected performance of the CALET-GBM is shown.
- OSTI ID:
- 21137228
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1000, Issue 1; Conference: Santa Fe conference on gamma-ray bursts 2007, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 5-9 Nov 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2943546; (c) 2008 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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