Search for gamma-ray burst sources by coordinated observations from ULYSSES, GRO and PVO.
Abstract
ULYSSES, being now close to Jupiter, PVO, orbiting the planet Venus and CGRO, the Compton Observatory near the earth, all carry gamma-ray burst detectors. The ULYSSES detector, which is farther away from the earth then any previous burst detector is sensitive to 20 - 150 keV X-rays and with time resolution down to 8 ms. By the time-of-arrival method more than 12 gamma-ray bursts have been detected by three widely separated detectors and can be localized with high accuracy depending on the location of the various spacecraft.
- Publication:
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Environment Observation and Climate Modelling Through International Space Projects
- Pub Date:
- July 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992eocm.rept..221S
- Keywords:
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- Coordination;
- Gamma Ray Bursts;
- Interplanetary Space;
- Light Curve;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Spacecraft Instruments;
- Ulysses Mission;
- Earth (Planet);
- Gamma Ray Observatory;
- Jupiter (Planet);
- Venus (Planet);
- Space Radiation