Properties of TGFs Observed with the New TGF capabilities of Fermi-GBM
Abstract
The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observatory (Fermi) trigger system is now responding to high-energy counts from the BGO detectors. This has resulted in an 8-fold increase in the number of detected TGFs, to ~2 per week. A further enhancement in operations over selected regions of the Fermi orbit also allows un-triggered, weak TGFs to be detected. It is now possible to detect TGFs with high certaiinty with as few as ~10 counts. This eliminates problems due to system deadtime and pulse pile-up, and greatly expands the dynamic range of TGF intensities being observed. Some features resulting from these new capabilities will be presented.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010AGUFMAE11A0324F
- Keywords:
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- 2411 IONOSPHERE / Electric fields;
- 2451 IONOSPHERE / Particle acceleration;
- 3304 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES / Atmospheric electricity;
- 7984 SPACE WEATHER / Space radiation environment