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All-sky earth occultation observations with the fermi gamma-ray burst monitor
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Finger, M. Beklen, E. Cherry, M. Case, G. Haynes, R. H. Connaughton, V. Rodi, J. Wilson-Hodge, C. A. Preece, R. Bhat, P. N. Jenke, P. Camero-Arranz, A. Chaplin, V. Briggs, M. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | Using the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on-board Fermi, we are monitoring the hard X-ray/ soft gamma ray sky using the Earth occultation technique. Each time a source in our catalog is occulted by (or exits occultation by) the Earth, we measure its flux using the change in count rates due to the occultation. Currently we are using CTIME data with 8 energy channels spanning 8 keV to 1 MeV for the GBM NaI detectors and spanning 150 keV to 40 MeV for the GBM BGO detectors. Our preliminary catalog consists of galactic X-ray binaries, the Crab Nebula, and active galactic nuclei. In addition, to Earth occultations, we have observed numerous occultations with Fermi's solar panels. |
| File Size | 2049106 |
| Page Count | 17 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20100003191 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t72v7hx4v |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2009-11-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astronomy Gamma Rays X Rays Crab Nebula X Ray Binaries Occultation Gamma Ray Bursts Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Galactic Nuclei Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
