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Calibration of the GLAST Burst Monitor detectors

Andreas von Kienlin·Elisabetta Bissaldi·Giselher G. Lichti·Helmut Steinle·Michael Krumrey·Martin Gerlach·Gerald J. Fishman·Charles Meegan·Narayana Bhat·Michael S. Briggs·Roland Diehl·Valerie Connaughton·Jochen Greiner·R. Marc Kippen·Chryssa Kouveliotou·William Paciesas·Robert Preece·Colleen Wilson-Hodge
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The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) will augment the capabilities of GLAST for the detection of cosmic gamma-ray bursts by extending the energy range (20 MeV to > 300 GeV) of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards lower energies by 2 BGO-detectors (150 keV to 30 MeV) and 12 NaI(Tl) detectors (10 keV to 1 MeV). The physical detector response of the GBM instrument for GRBs is determined with the help of Monte Carlo simulations, which are supported and verified by on-ground calibration measurements, performed extensively with the individual detectors at the MPE in 2005. All flight and spare detectors were irradiated with calibrated radioactive sources in the laboratory (from 14 keV to 4.43 MeV). The energy/channel-relations, the dependences of energy resolution and effective areas on the energy and the angular responses were measured. Due to the low number of emission lines of radioactive sources below 100 keV, calibration measurements in the energy range from 10 keV to 60 keV were performed with the X-ray radiometry working group of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) at the BESSY synchrotron radiation facility, Berlin.

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Andreas von Kienlin, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Giselher G. Lichti, Helmut Steinle, Michael Krumrey, Martin Gerlach, Gerald J. Fishman, Charles Meegan, Narayana Bhat, Michael S. Briggs, Roland Diehl, Valerie Connaughton, Jochen Greiner, R. Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, William Paciesas, Robert Preece, Colleen Wilson-Hodge. 2007-04-17. Calibration of the GLAST Burst Monitor detectors. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2757460

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