The Interplanetary Network Supplement to the Fermi GBM Catalog - An AO-2 and AO-3 Guest Investigator Project
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/ Authors
K. Hurley, M. Briggs, V. Connaughton, C. Meegan, A. von Kienlin, A. Rau, X. Zhang, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, E. Mazets
and 30 more authors
V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks, S. Barthelmy, T. Cline, J. Cummings, N. Gehrels, H. A. Krimm, I. G. Mitrofanov, D. Golovin, M. L. Litvak, A. B. Sanin, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, R. Starr, D. M. Smith, W. Hajdas, K. Yamaoka, M. Ohno, Y. Fukazawa, T. Takahashi, M. Tashiro, Y. Terada, T. Murakami
/ Abstract
In the first two years of operation of the Fermi GBM, the 9-spacecraft Interplanetary Network (IPN) detected 158 GBM bursts with one or two distant spacecraft, and triangulated them to annuli or error boxes. Combining the IPN and GBM localizations leads to error boxes which are up to 4 orders of magnitude smaller than those of the GBM alone. These localizations comprise the IPN supplement to the GBM catalog, and they support a wide range of scientific investigations.