- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/saxgrbmgrb
- Title:
- BeppoSAX/GRBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
- Short Name:
- SAXGRBMGRB
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM) aboard the BeppoSAX satellite. It includes 1082 GRBs with 40 - 700 keV fluences in the range from 1.3 x 10<sup>-7</sup> to 4.5 x 10<sup>-4</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>, and 40 - 700 keV peak fluxes from 3.7x10<sup>-8</sup> to 7.0 x 10<sup>-5</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s. Some relevant parameters of each GRB are reported in the catalog. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2010 based on the CDS catalog J/ApJS/180/192, file table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/batsegrbsp
- Title:
- CGRO/BATSE Complete Spectral Catalog of Bright GRBs
- Short Name:
- BATSE/Spec
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The CGRO/BATSE Complete Spectral Catalog of Bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) contains the results of a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright GRBs observed with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE; spectral range ~ 30 keV - 2 MeV) with high temporal and spectral resolution. The sample was selected from the complete set of 2704 BATSE GRBs based on their energy fluence or peak photon flux values in order to assure good statistics, and included 17 short GRBs. To obtain well-constrained spectral parameters, several photon models were used to fit each spectrum. Spectral parameters resulting from the fits using different models were compared, and the spectral parameters that best represent each spectrum were statistically determined, taking into account the parametrization differences among the models. A thorough analysis was performed on 350 time-integrated and 8459 time-resolved burst spectra, and the effects of integration times in determining the spectral parameters were explored. Using the results, correlations among spectral parameters and their evolution pattern within each burst were studied. The resulting spectral catalog provides reliable constraints on particle acceleration and emission mechanisms in GRBs, and is the most comprehensive study of spectral properties of GRB prompt emission to date. The files containing the details of the spectral model fits to the GRBs are also available as data products associated with this Browse table. This table was created in May 2006 based on the electronic versions of Tables 1 and 9 from the published paper which were supplied by the author. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/fermigbrst
- Title:
- Fermi GBM Burst Catalog
- Short Name:
- FERMIGBRST
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- When referencing results from this online catalog, please cite <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7a18">von Kienlin, A. et al. 2020</a>, <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/211/1/12/">Gruber, D. et al. 2014</a>, <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/211/1/13/">von Kienlin, A. et al. 2014</a>, and <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0067-0049/223/2/28/">Bhat, P. et al. 2016</a>. This table lists all of the triggers observed by a subset of the 14 GBM detectors (12 NaI and 2 BGO) which have been classified as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Note that there are two Browse catalogs resulting from GBM triggers. All GBM triggers are entered in the <a href="/W3Browse/fermi/fermigtrig.html">Fermi GBM Trigger Catalog</a>, while only those triggers classified as bursts are entered in the Burst Catalog. Thus, a burst will be found in both the Trigger and Burst Catalogs. The Burst Catalog analysis requires human intervention; therefore, GRBs will be entered in the Trigger Catalog before the Burst Catalog. The latency requirements are 1 day for triggers and 3 days for bursts. There are four fewer bursts in the online catalog than in the Gruber et al. 2014 paper. The four missing events (081007224, 091013989, 091022752, and 091208623) have not been classified with certainty as GRBs and are not included in the general GRB catalog. This classification may be revised at a later stage. The GBM consists of an array of 12 sodium iodide (NaI) detectors which cover the lower end of the energy range up to 1 MeV. The GBM triggers off of the rates in the NaI detectors, with some Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF)-specific algorithms using the bismuth germanate (BGO) detectors, sensitive to higher energies, up to 40 MeV. The NaI detectors are placed around the Fermi spacecraft with different orientations to provide the required sensitivity and FOV. The cosine-like angular response of the thin NaI detectors is used to localize burst sources by comparing rates from detectors with different viewing angles. The two BGO detectors are placed on opposite sides of the spacecraft so that all sky positions are visible to at least one BGO detector. The signals from all 14 GBM detectors are collected by a central Data Processing Unit (DPU). This unit digitizes and time-tags the detectors' pulse height signals, packages the resulting data into several different types for transmission to the ground (via the Fermi spacecraft), and performs various data processing tasks such as autonomous burst triggering. The GRB science products are transmitted to the FSSC in two types of files. The first file, called the "bcat" file, provides basic burst parameters such as duration, peak flux and fluence, calculated from 8-channel data using a spectral model which has a power-law in energy that falls exponentially above an energy EPeak, known as the Comptonized model. The crude 8-channel binning and the simple spectral model allow data fits in batch mode over numerous time bins in an efficient and robust fashion, including intervals with little or no flux, yielding both values for the burst duration, and deconvolved lightcurves for the detectors included in the fit. The bcat file includes two extensions. The first, containing detailed information about energy channels and detectors used in the calculations, is detector-specific, and includes the time history of the deconvolved flux over the time intervals of the burst. The second shows the evolution of the spectral parameters obtained in a joint fit of the included detectors for the model used, usually the Comptonized model described above. The bcat files and their time-varying quantities contained in these two extensions are available at the HEASARC FTP site. Quantities derived from these batch fits are given in the bcat primary header and presented in the Browse table, as described below. The main purpose of the analysis contained in the bcat file is to produce a measure of the duration of the burst after deconvolving the instrument response. The duration quantities are: <pre> * 't50' - the time taken to accumulate 50% of the burst fluence starting at the 25% fluence level. * 't90' - the time taken to accumulate 90% of the burst fluence starting at the 5% fluence level. </pre> By-products of this analysis include fluxes on various timescales and fluences, both obtained using the simple Comptonized model described above. These quantities are detailed in the Browse table using the following prefixes: <pre> * 'flux' - the peak flux over 3 different timescales obtained in the batch mode fit used to calculate t50/t90. * 'fluence' - the total fluence accumulated in the t50/t90 calculation. </pre> The fluxes and fluences derived from the 8-channel data for these bcat files should be considered less reliable than those in the spectral analysis files described below. Analysis methods used in obtaining these quantities are detailed in the first GBM GRB Catalog (Paciesas et al. 2011). Updates of bcat files will be sent (with new version numbers) as these parameters are refined. This "bcat" file is produced for triggers that are classified as GRBs (with exceptions as described below), and supplements the initial data in the trigger or "tcat" file that is produced for all triggers. The second type of file (the spectrum or "scat" file) provides parameter values and goodness-of-fit measures for different types of spectral fits and models. These fits are performed using 128-channel data, either CSPEC or, for short bursts, TTE data. The type and model are coded into the file name. There are currently two spectrum categories: <pre> * Peak flux ('pflx') - a single spectrum over the time range of the peak flux of the burst * Fluence ('flnc') - a single spectrum over the entire burst duration selected by the duty scientist. </pre> Like the bcat files, the scat files have two extensions. The first extension gives detector-specific information, including photon fluxes and fluences for each detector, which are provided for each energy channel. The second extension provides derived quantities such as flux, fluence and model parameters for the joint fit of all included detectors. The scat files and their energy-resolved quantities contained in these two extensions are available in the Fermi data archive at the HEASARC. Quantities derived from these spectral fits are available in the Browse table, as described below and in Goldstein et al. (2011). The spectra are fit with a number of models, with the signal-to-noise ratio of the spectrum often determining whether a more complex model is statistically favored. The current set is: <pre> * Power law ('plaw'), * Comptonized (exponentially attenuated power law; 'comp') * Band ('band') * Smoothly broken power law ('sbpl') </pre> <b>Warnings</b> The bcat and scat files result from two completely independent analyses, and consequently, it is possible that the same quantities might show differences. Indeed, 1) the fluxes and fluences in the "scat" files should be considered more reliable than those in the "bcat" files, with the official fluxes and fluences being those yielded by the statistically favored model ("Best_Fitting_Model" in the Browse table) and with the full energy resolution of the instrument; 2) in both the bcat and scat analyses, the set of detectors used for the fits ("Scat_Detector_Mask" in the Browse table) may not be the same as the set of detectors that triggered GBM ("Bcat_Detector_Mask" in the Browse table); 3) background definitions are different for the bcat and scat analysis (see References below). Finally, for weak events, it is not always possible to perform duration or spectral analyses, and some bursts occur too close in time to South Atlantic Anomaly entries or exits by Fermi with resultant data truncations that prevent background determinations for the duration analysis. There is not an exact one-to-one correspondence between those events for which the duration analysis fails and those which are too weak to have a useful spectral characterization. This means that in the HEASARC Browse table there are a handful of GRBs which have duration parameters but not spectral fit parameters, and vice versa. In these cases, blank entries in the table indicate missing values where an analysis was not possible. Values of 0.0 for the uncertainties on spectral parameters indicate those parameters have been fixed in the fit from which other parameters or quantities in the table were derived. Missing values for model fit parameters indicate that the fit failed to converge for this model. This is true mostly for the more complicated models (SBPL or BAND) when the fits fail to converge for weaker bursts. Bad spectral fits can often result in unphysical flux and fluence values with undefined errors. We include these bad fits but leave the error fields blank when they contain undefined values. The selection criteria used in the first catalog (Goldstein et al. 2011) for the determination of the best-fit spectral model are different from those in the second catalog (Gruber et al. 2014). The results using the two methods on the sample included in Goldstein et al. (2011) are compared in Gruber et al. (2014). The old catalog files can be retrieved using the HEASARC ftp archive tree, under "previous" directories. The values returned by Browse always come from the "current" directories. The chi-squared statistic was not used in the 2nd catalog, either for parameter optimization or model comparison. The chi-squared values are missing for a few GRBs. This is believed to be because of a known software issue and should not be considered indicative of a bad fit. The variable "scatalog" included in the Browse tables and in the FITS files indicates which catalog a file belongs to, with 2 being the current catalog, and 1 (or absent) the first catalog (preliminary values may appear with value 0). The information in this table is provided by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Instrument Operations Center (GIOC) and the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC). The values come from burst and spectral catalog entry FITS files provided by the GIOC to the FSSC. These FITS files may contain additional data and are available for download. This table is updated automatically within a day or so of new data files being processed and made available. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/phebus
- Title:
- Granat Phebus Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Short Name:
- PHEBUS
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The PHEBUS database table is the Terekhov et al. (1994, 1995) and Tkachenko et al. (1998, 2002) Catalog of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts Registered by the Phebus (or Phoebus) instrument on-board the GRANAT Observatory which operated from December 1989 to December 1996. One of the purposes of Phebus was to study cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the 100 keV to 100 MeV region of the spectrum. This catalog contains information on GRBs registered during the entire seven years of the mission, such as the energy fluxes observed at the GRB luminosity maxima and the time-integrated energy fluences in the energy range above 100 keV. The details of the Phebus detectors and other operational information, such as the criteria for burst detection, can be found in the Terekhov et al. and Tkachenko et al. papers which are listed in the References Section. The original version of this database table was created by the HEASARC in the late 1990s. Later updates were made in February 2002 and March 2003, based on the HEASARC's transcription of Tables 1 and 2 of Terekhov et al. (1994), Terekhov et al. (1995) and Tkachenko, A.Yu. et al. (1998), and of Table 1 of Tkachenko, A.Yu. et al. (2002). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/gusbad
- Title:
- GRBs Uniformly Selected from BATSE Archival Data (Version 2.1)
- Short Name:
- BATSE/GUSBAD
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The GUSBAD (Gamma-ray bursts Uniformly Selected from BATSE Archival Data) Catalog is based on BATSE DISCLA data at a time resolution of 1.024 seconds for the full 9.1 years of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) mission from April 19, 1991 until May 26, 2000 (corresponding to Truncated Julian Dates from 8365 to 11690). This catalog lists over 2200 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Selection of GRBs for the GUSBAD Catalog requires a 5-sigma excess over the background in two of the BATSE detectors over the energy range 50-300 keV. The search covers the entire mission except when CGRO was over particular geographic regions or during one of 199,964 time windows when DISCLA data were missing or contaminated. The classification as GRB or non-GRB of the 6236 events that were produced by the software trigger was aided by correlating the times and positions of the events against the Current BATSE Burst Catalog. There are 589 GRBs in the GUSBAD Catalog that are not included in the Current BATSE Burst Catalog. The GUSBAD catalog is uniform in the sense that the detection criterion is the same throughout and that the properties given in the catalog are available for every burst. The detection and the derivation of the properties listed in the catalog were carried out automatically, except for some rare instances. This makes the catalog especially suitable for statistical work and simulations, such as used in the evaluation of V/Vmax. The procedure used to detect and classify the bursts has been described in Schmidt (2004). This database table was last updated by the HEASARC in April 2005 using the file GUSBADcat.dat containing version 2.1 of the catalog, which was obtained from the catalog author's web site at <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mxs/grb/GUSBAD/">http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mxs/grb/GUSBAD/</a> <p> Comments or questions about the contents of the GUSBAD Catalog are welcomed by the author who can be contacted at mxs@astro.caltech.edu. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/smmgrs
- Title:
- GRS Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Short Name:
- SMMGRS
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS) was one of two instruments on the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) which independently monitored cosmic gamma-ray bursts from SMM's launch in February 1980 until the end of the mission in 1989. The GRS was designed for investigation of the gamma-ray spectrum of solar flares (Forrest, D.J. et al. 1980, Sol. Phys., 65, 15). The main detector was an array of seven gain-controlled 7.6 cm diameter X 7.6 cm thick NaI(Tl) detectors. A complete spectrum was obtained every 16.38 seconds in the energy range 0.3-9 MeV. The number of counts in three energy windows covering the 4.2-6.4 MeV range was read out every 2.048 seconds. In addition, the number of counts in an approximately 50 keV wide window near 300 keV was read out every 64 milliseconds. The spectrometer was shielded by a 2.5 cm thick CsI(Na) annulus and a 25 cm diameter X 7.6 cm thick CsI(Na) back detector. The shield elements defined a field of view of approximately 135 degrees (FWHM) in the solar direction. The CsI back detector and the seven NaI detectors together provided a high-energy spectrometer with approximately 100 cm^2 effective area and four energy channels from 10 to 100 MeV. The number of counts in those high-energy channels was read out every 2.048 seconds. The experiment was complemented by two 8 cm^2 X 0.6 cm thick NaI(Tl) detectors which measured the X-ray portion of the spectrum every 1.024 seconds in the range from 13 keV to 182 keV. This database table was created by the HEASARC in the early 1990s based on tables supplied by the SMM Project and was subsequently revised in February 2002. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hete2grb
- Title:
- HETE-2 Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Short Name:
- HETE2GRB
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- HETE-2 (the High Energy Transient Explorer) is an international mission designed to help unravel the mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The primary goal of HETE-2 is to determine the origin and nature of cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by simultaneous observation of soft and medium X-rays and gamma-rays to provide precise localization of GRBs and identification of counterparts to these explosions. HETE-2 carries three science instruments: a set of wide-field gamma-ray spectrometers (FREGATE), a wide-field X-ray monitor (WXM, and a set of soft X-ray cameras (SXC) HETE-2 was launched on October 9, 2000, and declared fully operational on February 6, 2001. The contents of this HEASARC database table are based on the burst summary web pages created at MIT at the <a href="http://space.mit.edu/HETE/Bursts/">http://space.mit.edu/HETE/Bursts/</a>. The HEASARC table will be updated on a twice-per-week basis shortly after whenever the MIT web pages are updated. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hete2gcn
- Title:
- HETE-2 GCN Triggers Catalog
- Short Name:
- HETE2GCN
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- HETE-2 (the High Energy Transient Explorer) is an international mission designed to help unravel the mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The primary goal of HETE-2 is to determine the origin and nature of cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by simultaneous observation of soft and medium X-rays and gamma-rays to provide precise localization of GRBs and identification of counterparts to these explosions. HETE-2 carries three science instruments: a set of wide-field gamma-ray spectrometers (FREGATE), a wide-field X-ray monitor (WXM, and a set of soft X-ray cameras (SXC) HETE-2 was launched on October 9, 2000, and declared fully operational on February 6, 2001. The contents of this HEASARC database table are based on online tables created by Scott Barthelmy and available at the <a href="http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/">http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/</a> web site. The HEASARC table will be updated on a twice-per-week basis whenever the original tables are updated. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/kommersgrb
- Title:
- Kommers et al. (2001) BATSE Non-Triggered Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
- Short Name:
- Kommers
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the Kommers et al. (2001) Non-Triggered Burst Supplement to the BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) Catalog. It contains 873 "non-triggered" GRBs that were detected in a search of the BATSE Archival continuous data recorded between 1991 December 9 and 1997 December 17 for which the BATSE on-board burst trigger was not activated, for example because the burst was too faint to exceed the on-board detection threshold or it occurred while the on-board trigger was disabled for technical reasons. For each burst, the catalog gives an estimated source direction, duration, peak flux, and fluence. This catalog increases the number of GRBs detected using BATSE by 48% during the time period covered by the search. This database table was created at the HEASARC in September 2001 using the authors' file <a href="http://space.mit.edu/BATSE/ntgrb-ascii.html">http://space.mit.edu/BATSE/ntgrb-ascii.html</a> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/pvogrb
- Title:
- PVO Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Short Name:
- PVOGRB
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog gives information on the triggered events detected by the PVO instrument from 1978-09-14 to 1988-07-21. The table was taken from the Ph.D. thesis of Kuan-Wen Chuang (UC-Riverside, 1990). The data originates from the Ph.D. thesis of Kuan-Wen Chuang (UC-Riverside, 1990). The current version of this database table was created by the HEASARC in August 2002, replacing the previous version (named PVOTRIG) in which the times were somewhat inaccurate. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
