The Fermi GBM catalog (Paciesas+, 2012)

Creators
  • W.S. Paciesas
  • C.A. Meegan
  • A. von Kienlin
  • P.N. Bhat
  • E. Bissaldi
  • M.S. Briggs
  • J.M. Burgess
  • V. Chaplin
  • V. Connaughton
  • R. Diehl
  • G.J. Fishman
  • G. Fitzpatrick
  • S. Foley
  • M.H. Gibby
  • M. Giles
  • A. Goldstein
  • J. Greiner
  • D. Gruber
  • S. Guiriec
  • Alexander van der Horst
  • R.M. Kippen
  • C. Kouveliotou
  • G. Lichti
  • L. Lin
  • S. McBreen
  • R.D. Preece
  • A. Rau
  • D. Tierney
  • C. Wilson-Hodge
Publication date March 2012
Description
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched on 2008 June 11 on a mission to study the universe at high energies. The onboard Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger system for detecting GRBs was first enabled on 2008 July 12. In this paper, we provide a catalog of GRBs that triggered the GBM during its first two years of operation. During this time the instrument burst detection algorithms were triggered 908 times: 492 of these are classified as GRBs, 79 as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), 170 as soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), 31 as solar flares, 61 as charged particles, and 75 as others (galactic sources, accidental statistical fluctuations, or too weak to classify). Of the 491 GRBs (in one case the same GRB triggered GBM twice), 18 were detected by the LAT with high confidence above 100MeV (A. Abdo et al. 2012ApJ...744..146A).

Note: table1.dat 66x38 Trigger criteria history; table2.dat 492x107 GRB triggers: locations and trigger characteristics; table3.dat 492x75 GRB durations (50-300keV); table4.dat 492x66 GRB fluence & peak flux (10-1000keV); table5.dat 492x66 GRB fluence & peak flux (50-300keV);
Publisher VizieR
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Document type Dataset
Related publication The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: The First Two Years
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