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Title: Prospects for GRB science with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal
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  1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  2. Stockholm Observatory, Stockholm (Sweden)
  3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa (Italy)
  4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (Italy); Univ. di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)
  5. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
  6. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova (Italy); Univ. di Padova, Padova (Italy)
  7. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (Sweden)
  8. Max-Planck Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  9. Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)
  10. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  11. Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier (France)
  12. Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States)
  13. Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Center, Frascati (Roma) (Italy)
  14. "M. Merlin" dell'Univ. e del Politecnico di Bari, Bari (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari (Italy)
  15. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  16. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, AL (United States)
  17. INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Roma (Italy)
  18. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  19. Univ. of Hertfordshire, Hatfield (United Kingdom)
  20. Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier (France); Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States)
  21. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
  22. Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier (France); CEA-IRFU/CNRS/Univ. Paris Diderot, Gif sur Yvette (France)
  23. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Perugia (Italy)
  24. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari (Italy)
  25. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo (Japan)
  26. Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO (United States)
  27. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa (Japan)
  28. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (Italy)
  29. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  30. NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA (United States)
  31. Hiroshima Univ., Higashi-Hiroshima (Japan)
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The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on the Fermi mission will reveal the rich spectral and temporal gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomena in the >100 MeV band. The synergy with Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor detectors will link these observations to those in the well explored 10-1000 keV range; the addition of the >100 MeV band observations will resolve theoretical uncertainties about burst emission in both the prompt and afterglow phases. Trigger algorithms will be applied to the LAT data both onboard the spacecraft and on the ground. Furthermore, the sensitivity of these triggers will differ because of the available computing resources onboard and on the ground. Here we present the LAT's burst detection methodologies and the instrument's GRB capabilities.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Contributing Organization:
Fermi LAT Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1357439
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 701; ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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