The IPN Supplement to the Fermi GBM Catalog
Abstract
The data of the nine spacecraft Interplanetary Network are being used to refine GBM localizations of gamma-ray bursts. This effort is 1) assisting the GBM team to understand and reduce systematic uncertainties, 2) reducing the sizes of GBM and LAT localizations by one to four orders of magnitude, 3) facilitating the identification of GRB sources with objects found by ground- and space-based observatories at other wavelengths, and 4) facilitating searches for non-electromagnetic components of GRB emission such as neutrinos and gravitational radiation. We present the statistics of the bursts detected by the IPN and demonstrate the synergy between IPN and GBM localizations.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division #11
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010HEAD...11.1005H