Abstract
The 3rd interplanetary network (IPN), which has been in operation since 1990, presently consists of 9 spacecraft: AGILE, Fermi, RHESSI, Suzaku, and Swift, in low Earth orbit; INTEGRAL, in eccentric Earth orbit with apogee 0.5 light-seconds; Wind, up to ∼7 light-seconds from Earth; MESSENGER, en route to Mercury; and Mars Odyssey, in orbit around Mars. The IPN operates as a full-time, all-sky monitor for transients down to a threshold of about 6 × 10-7 erg cm-2 or 1 photoncm-2 s-1. It detects ∼346 cosmic gamma-ray bursts per year. These events are generally not the same ones detected by narrower field of view instruments such as Swift, INTEGRAL IBIS, and SuperAGILE; the localization accuracy is in the several arcminute and above range. The uses of the IPN data are described.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Deciphering the Ancient Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Pages | 330-333 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Event | International Symposium "Deciphering the Ancient Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts" - Kyoto, Japan Duration: Apr 19 2010 → Apr 23 2010 |
Publication series
| Name | AIP Conference Proceedings |
|---|---|
| Volume | 1279 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0094-243X |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1551-7616 |
Other
| Other | International Symposium "Deciphering the Ancient Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts" |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Kyoto |
| Period | 4/19/10 → 4/23/10 |
Keywords
- Gamma-rays: Bursts
- Instrumentation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
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