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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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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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	L299-L305
Journal	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume	411
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031231
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2003

Keywords

SPI
INTEGRAL
GRB
gamma-ray astronomy
gamma-ray bursts

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von Kienlin, A., Beckmann, V., Rau, A., Arend, N., Bennett, K., McBreen, B., Connell, P., Deluit, S., Hanlon, L., Hurley, K., Kippen, M., Lichti, GG., Moran, L., Preece, R., Roques, J.-P., Schonfelder, V., Skinner, G., Strong, A., & Williams, R. (2003). INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI's GRB detection capabilities. GRBs detected inside SPI's FoV and with the anticoincidence system ACS. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 411(1), L299-L305. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031231

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