THE FERMI GBM GAMMA-RAY BURST SPECTRAL CATALOG: THE FIRST TWO YEARS
By A. Goldstein, J. Burgess, R. Preece, M. Briggs, S. Guiriec, A. J. van der Horst, V. Connaughton, C. Wilson-Hodge, W. Paciesas, C. Meegan and 18 more. 2012
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We present systematic spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first two years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra extracted from 487 GRBs, and by fitting four different spectral models, this results in a compendium of over 3800 spectra. The models were selected based on their empirical importance to the spectral shape of many GRBs, and the analysis performed was devised to be as thorough and objective as possible. We describe in detail our procedure and criteria for the analyses, and present the bulk results in the form of parameter distributions. This catalog should be considered an official product from the Fermi GBM Science Team, and the data files containing the complete results are available from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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In Astronomy and Astrophysics
- A. Pe’er
- F. Ryde
- C. Lundman
- C. Wilson-Hodge
- The Pierre Auger Collaboration
- S. McBreen
- T. Littenberg
- M. Briggs
In Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- A. Fedynitch
- Todor Stanev
- The Pierre Auger Collaboration
- W. Rhode
- S. McBreen
- S. Boser
- Thomas K. Gaisser
- Anne Schukraft
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- Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger (2017, methodology): “Standard follow-up analyses (Goldstein et al. 2012; Paciesas et al. 2012; Gruber et al. 2014) of the Fermi-GBM trigger determined the burst duration to be T 2.0 0.590 = s, where T90 is defined as the interval over which 90% of the burst fluence is accumulated in the energy range of 50–300keV.”
- An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A (2017, background): “Further details on standard spectral fitting analysis procedures and selections are given in Goldstein et al. (2012).”
- A theory of photospheric emission from relativistic, collimated outflows (2012, background): “The observed low energy photon index varies between bursts, forming an approximately Gaussian distribution centered at α ≈ −1 with a full width at half maximum of ≈ 1 (e.g. Goldstein et al. 2012).”