INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI's GRB detection capabilities. GRBs detected inside SPI's FoV and with the anticoincidence system ACS

  • A von Kienlin
  • , V Beckmann
  • , A Rau
  • , N Arend
  • , K Bennett
  • , B McBreen
  • , Paul Connell
  • , S Deluit
  • , L Hanlon
  • , K Hurley
  • , M Kippen
  • , GG Lichti
  • , L Moran
  • , R Preece
  • , J-P Roques
  • , V Schonfelder
  • , G Skinner
  • , A Strong
  • , R Williams

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Abstract

The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, offers significant gamma-ray burst detection capabilities. In its 35degrees (full width) field of view SPI is able to localise gamma-ray bursts at a mean rate of similar to 0.8 /month. With its large anticoincidence shield of 512 kg of BGO crystals SPI is able to detect gamma-ray bursts quasi omni-directionally with a very high sensitivity. Burst alerts of the anticoincidence shield are distributed by the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System. In the first 8 months of the mission about 0.8 / day gamma-ray burst candidates and 0.3 / day gamma-ray burst positions were obtained with the anticoincidence shield by interplanetary network triangulations with other spacecrafts.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)L299-L305
JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics
Volume411
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2003

Keywords

  • SPI
  • INTEGRAL
  • GRB
  • gamma-ray astronomy
  • gamma-ray bursts

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