The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Instrument

Journal Article · Mon May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3155916· OSTI ID:21304953

Bhat, P N; Briggs, M S; Connaughton, V; Paciesas, W S; Preece, R D ^[1]; Meegan, C A ^[2]; Lichti, G G; Diehl, R; Greiner, J; Kienlin, A von ^[3]; Fishman, G J; Kouveliotou, C ^[4]; Kippen, R M ^[5]

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1. University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville AL (United States)
2. Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville AL (United States)
3. Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
4. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL (United States)
5. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM (United States)

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched on June 11, 2008 carries two experiments onboard--the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). The primary mission of the GBM instrument is to support the LAT in observing {gamma}-ray bursts (GRBs) by providing low-energy measurements with high temporal and spectral resolution as well as rapid burst locations over a large field-of-view ({>=}8 sr). The GBM will complement the LAT measurements by observing GRBs in the energy range 8 keV to 40 MeV, the region of the spectral turnover in most GRBs. The GBM detector signals are processed by the onboard digital processing unit (DPU). We describe some of the hardware features of the DPU and its expected limitations during intense triggers.

• OSTI ID: 21304953
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1133, Issue 1; Conference: 6. Huntsville symposium on gamma-ray burst, Huntsville, AL (United States), 20-23 Oct 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3155916; (c) 2009 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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