Title :
Gamma-ray burst detection with BeppoSAX
Author :
Frontera, Filippo
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Fisica, Ferrara Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The capability of the BeppoSAX satellite of localizing with high precision celestial gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and the discovery with the same satellite of GRB X-ray afterglow emission has represented the most important breakthrough, from the GRB discovery, for the comprehension of the GRB phenomenon. It is now known that the distance scale of the GRBs is extragalactic and that very huge energies are involved in the phenomenon. The author overviews the BeppoSAX main features that have permitted these exciting results and discusses some of them
Keywords :
X-ray sources (astronomical); gamma-ray sources (astronomical); BeppoSAX; X-ray afterglow emission; X-ray satellite; celestial gamma-ray bursts; discovery; energies; extragalactic distance scale; gamma-ray burst detection; high precision localization; Energy resolution; Focusing; Gamma ray bursts; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Instruments; Monitoring; Satellites; Spectroscopy; Telescopes;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium, 1999. Conference Record. 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5696-9
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1999.842469
