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Gamma-Ray Astrophysics NSSTC Fermi GBM

Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is not a pointed or imaging instrument. To determine fluxes for known sources, we measure the change in the count rate observed in the NaI (or BGO) detectors when the source enters or exits Earth occultation. The measured counts in each energy channel are converted to fluxes using an assumed spectrum for each source. For these measurements we currently use CTIME data, with 0.256-s resolution and 8 energy channels covering 8 keV to 1 MeV. Our technique uses all 8 energy channels, but for most sources the majority of the signal is in the 12-25 keV and 25-50 keV bands. The fluxes listed in the table are for the 12-25 keV band and are the mission long average, the 5-day average flux for the most recent 5 days, and the 2-day average flux for the most recent 2 days. The fluxes are normalized to units of mCrab based on the Crab flux over the period from MJD 54690 to 54790, during which the Crab flux is relatively constant as measured by GBM.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier NASA-0000232
Data First Published 2018-06-25
Data Last Modified 2020-01-29
Category Space Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
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