GRBs detected by the HETE-2 satellite
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | GAMMA-RAY BURST: Sixth Huntsville Symposium |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Astronomy and astrophysics |
| Keywords | gamma-ray bursts |
| Description | Between the years 2000 and 2006 HETE-2 detected several hundreds GRBs and localized 84 of them, with a precision even as low as few arcminutes and a delay even of only one minute. The low energy threshold of the instruments made HETE-2 particularly apt for detecting X-Ray Flashes and X-Ray Rich GRBs and for the study of the soft part of the energy spectrum in general. We report on some preliminary statistical studies of the HETE-2 events. In particular, analysis of parameters of individual peaks identified in the light-curves of the gamma-ray prompt emission was done in order to obtain a more precise classification of processes in this phase. |