The GLAST burst monitor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 763-770

  Von Kienlin, Andreas ^a   Meegan, Charles A ^b   Lichti, Giselher G ^a   Bhat, Narayana P ^c   Briggs, Michael S ^c   Connaughton, Valerie ^c   Diehl, Roland ^a   Fishman, Gerald J ^b   Greiner, Jochen ^a   Hoover, Andrew S ^d   Kippen, R Marc ^d   Kouveliotou, Chryssa ^e   Paciesas, William S ^c   Preece, Robert D ^a   Schönfelder, Volker ^a   Steinle, Helmut ^a   Wilson, Robert B ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Instrumentation: detectors; Space vehicles: instruments; Techniques: spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCINTILLATION; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET DETECTORS;

BURSTS; GLAST BURST MONITOR (GBM); INSTRUMENTATION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTRA;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 10044226290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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