J/ApJ/826/228 The Fermi-GBM three-year X-ray burst catalog (Jenke+, 2016)
The Fermi-GBM three-year X-ray burst catalog.
Jenke P.A., Linares M., Connaughton V., Beklen E., Camero-Arranz A.,
Finger M.H., Wilson-Hodge C.A.
<Astrophys. J., 826, 228-228 (2016)>
=2016ApJ...826..228J 2016ApJ...826..228J (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: GRB ; Gamma rays ; X-ray sources ; Surveys
Keywords: stars: neutron - X-rays: bursts
Abstract:
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all-sky gamma-ray
monitor well known in the gamma-ray burst (GRB) community. Although
GBM excels in detecting the hard, bright extragalactic GRBs, its
sensitivity above 8 keV and its all-sky view make it an excellent
instrument for the detection of rare, short-lived Galactic transients.
In 2010 March, we initiated a systematic search for transients using
GBM data. We conclude this phase of the search by presenting a
three-year catalog of 1084 X-ray bursts. Using spectral analysis,
location, and spatial distributions we classified the 1084 events into
752 thermonuclear X-ray bursts, 267 transient events from accretion
flares and X-ray pulses, and 65 untriggered gamma-ray bursts. All
thermonuclear bursts have peak blackbody temperatures broadly
consistent with photospheric radius expansion (PRE) bursts. We find an
average rate of 1.4 PRE bursts per day, integrated over all Galactic
bursters within about 10 kpc. These include 33 and 10 bursts from the
ultra-compact X-ray binaries 4U 0614+09 and 2S 0918-549, respectively.
We discuss these recurrence times and estimate the total mass ejected
by PRE bursts in our Galaxy.
Description:
Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all-sky monitor whose primary objective
is to extend the energy range over which gamma-ray bursts are observed in
the Large Area Telescope on Fermi (Meegan et al. 2009ApJ...702..791M 2009ApJ...702..791M).
GBM consists of 12 NaI detectors with a diameter of 12.7 cm and a thickness
of 1.27 cm and two bismuth germanate (BGO) detectors with a diameter and
thickness of 12.7 cm.
GBM has three continuous data types: CTIME data with nominal 0.256 s
time resolution and 8-channel spectral resolution used for event
detection and localization, CSPEC data with nominal 4.096 s time
resolution and 128-channel spectral resolution, which are used for
spectral modeling, and CTTE (continuous-time tagged event) data with
time stamps (2 µs precision) on individual events at full 128-channel
spectral resolution, which were made available in 2012 November.
The Fermi-GBM X-ray Burst Monitor relies on daily inspection of CTIME
channel 1 (12-25 keV) data and began operations on 2010 March 12.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table3.dat 60 267 GBM Accretion Powered Events
table4.dat 161 65 GBM Untriggered GRB Events
table5.dat 195 768 GBM Type 1 Events
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See also:
J/A+A/525/A53 : GBM parameters for detected FERMI bursts (Guetta+, 2011)
J/ApJ/754/121 : GRBs from Fermi/GBM and LAT (The Fermi Team, 2012)
J/ApJ/756/112 : Fermi/GBM GRB time-resolved spectral analysis (Lu+, 2012)
J/ApJS/199/18 : The Fermi GBM catalog (Paciesas+, 2012)
J/ApJS/211/13 : The second Fermi/GBM GRB catalog (4yr) (von Kienlin+, 2014)
J/ApJS/216/32 : Localizations of GRBs with Fermi GBM (Connaughton+, 2015)
J/ApJS/223/28 : The third Fermi/GBM GRB catalog (6yr) (Bhat+, 2016)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 I11 --- ID [10033115145/13021437595] Identifier
13- 33 A21 --- Obs.Date Date of peak time (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.s)
35- 39 F5.1 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
41- 45 F5.1 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
47- 50 F4.1 deg ePos Position error
52- 60 A9 --- Assoc Association identifier
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 I11 --- ID [10031206566/13020154189] Identifier
13- 33 A21 --- Obs.Date Date of peak time (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.s)
35- 39 F5.1 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
41- 45 F5.1 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
47- 50 F4.1 deg ePos Position error
52- 58 F7.1 keV Epeak ? Peak of νFν spectrum
60- 66 F7.1 keV e_Epeak ? Uncertainty in Epeak
68- 74 E7.1 10-11W/m2 Flux ?=0 Energy flux in 10-1000 keV;
10-8erg/s/cm2
76- 82 E7.1 10-11W/m2 e_Flux ?=0 Uncertainty in Flux
84- 90 E7.1 10-10J/m2 Fluence ?=0 Energy fluence in 10-1000 keV;
10-7erg/cm2
92- 98 E7.1 10-10J/m2 e_Fluence ?=0 Uncertainty in Fluence
100-104 F5.2 --- Index Power-law index
106-110 F5.3 --- e_Index Uncertainty in Index
112-118 E7.1 10-11W/m2 PLFlux Power-law energy flux in 10-100 keV;
10-8erg/s/cm2
120-126 E7.1 10-11W/m2 e_PLFlux Uncertainty in PLFlux
128-134 E7.1 10-10J/m2 PLFluence Power-law energy fluence in 10-100 keV;
10-7erg/cm2
136-142 E7.1 10-10J/m2 e_PLFluence Uncertainty in PLFluence
144-147 F4.1 s Rise Rise time
149-153 F5.1 s Fall Fall time
155-159 F5.1 s Dur Duration
161 A1 --- Struc [SM] Temporal structure of the event (G1)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 I11 --- ID [10032800979/13022239487] Identifier
13- 33 A21 --- Obs.Date Date of peak time (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.s)
35- 39 F5.1 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
41- 45 F5.1 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
47- 51 F5.1 deg ePos Position error
53- 74 A22 --- Assoc Association identifier
76- 78 F3.1 kpc Dist ? Distance to the Association
80- 84 F5.3 keV BBTemp Blackbody temperature
86- 90 F5.3 keV e_BBTemp Uncertainty in BBTemp
92- 99 E8.1 10-11W/m2 BBFlux Blackbody energy flux; 10-8erg/s/cm2
101-108 E8.1 10-11W/m2 e_BBFlux Uncertainty in BBFlux
110-117 E8.1 10-10J/m2 BBFluence Blackbody energy fluence; 10-7erg/cm2
119-126 E8.1 10-10J/m2 e_BBFluence Uncertainty in BBFluence
128-132 F5.2 --- Index Power-law index
134-138 F5.3 --- e_Index Uncertainty in Index
140-147 E8.1 10-11W/m2 PLFlux Power-law energy flux; 10-8erg/s/cm2
149-156 E8.1 10-11W/m2 e_PLFlux Uncertainty in PLFlux
158-165 E8.1 10-10J/m2 PLFluence Power-law energy fluence; 10-7erg/cm2
167-174 E8.1 10-10J/m2 e_PLFluence Uncertainty in PLFluence
176-180 F5.1 s Rise Rise time
182-186 F5.1 s Fall Fall time
188-192 F5.1 s Dur Duration
195 A1 --- Struc [SM] Temporal structure of the event (G1)
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Global notes:
Note (G1): Structure as follows:
S = Single peaked light curve;
M = Multi-peaked light curve. If an event is multi-peaked, the rise time and
fall time that is calculated may no longer represent a true rise or fall
time for the event since the peak of the event could occur on any of
the multiple peaks.
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Prepared by [AAS], Tiphaine Pouvreau [CDS] 05-Mar-2018