LAT Observation of GRBs [electronic resource] : Simulations and Sensitivity Studies

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 2 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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The GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the next generation satellite experiment for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It employs a pair conversion technique to record photons in the energy range from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV. The LAT will follow the steps from its predecessor EGRET (1991-2000), and will explore the high-energy gamma-ray sky with unprecedented capabilities. The observation of Gamma-Ray Bursts is one of the main science goal of the LAT: in this contribution we compute an estimation of the LAT sensitivity to GRB, adopting a phenomenological description of GRBs, where the high-energy emission in GRB is obtained extrapolating the observed BATSE spectrum up to LAT energies. The effect of the cosmological attenuation is included. We use the BATSE current catalog to build up our statistics.

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E 1.99:slac-pub-12905
slac-pub-12905

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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/22/2007.
"slac-pub-12905"
AIP Conf.Proc.921:472-473,2007
Prepared for 1st GLAST Symposium, Stanford, Palo Alto, 5-8 Feb 2007.
Omodei, Nicola; Norris, Jay.

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AC02-76SF00515

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