TY - GEN
T1 - Suzaku wide-band all-sky monitor observations of GRB prompt emissions
AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka
AU - Sugita, Satoshi
AU - Ohno, Masanori
AU - Takahashi, Takuya
AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi
AU - Terada, Yukikatsu
AU - Endo, Yasuhiko
AU - Hong, Soojing
AU - Abe, Keiichi
AU - Onda, Kaori
AU - Tashiro, Makoto
AU - Enoto, Teruaki
AU - Miyawaki, Ryohei
AU - Kokubun, Motohide
AU - Makishima, Kazuo
AU - Sato, Goro
AU - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
AU - Takahashi, Tadayuki
PY - 2006/5/19
Y1 - 2006/5/19
N2 - The Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM), realized by large thick anti-coincidence shields of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD), can be powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) detector which is sensitive to 50-5000 keV gamma-rays. The WAM is now in a full operational phase, and we have already detected some GRBs simultaneously with other satellites (Swift, Konus-Wind, HETE2 and INTEGRAL SPI/ACS). The most impressive event among detected GRBs is GRB051008, which was detected up to 2 MeV with the WAM. In this paper, we report on the WAM in-flight performance as a GRB monitor from initial three-months operations, focusing on the GRB trigger status and spectral analysis of GRB051008 and GRB051111 combined with Swift.
AB - The Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM), realized by large thick anti-coincidence shields of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD), can be powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) detector which is sensitive to 50-5000 keV gamma-rays. The WAM is now in a full operational phase, and we have already detected some GRBs simultaneously with other satellites (Swift, Konus-Wind, HETE2 and INTEGRAL SPI/ACS). The most impressive event among detected GRBs is GRB051008, which was detected up to 2 MeV with the WAM. In this paper, we report on the WAM in-flight performance as a GRB monitor from initial three-months operations, focusing on the GRB trigger status and spectral analysis of GRB051008 and GRB051111 combined with Swift.
KW - Gamma-ray bursts
KW - X- and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation
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U2 - 10.1063/1.2207890
DO - 10.1063/1.2207890
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845567323
SN - 0735403260
SN - 9780735403260
VL - 836
SP - 201
EP - 204
BT - AIP Conference Proceedings
T2 - GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE SWIFT ERA: 16th Maryland Astrophysics Conference
Y2 - 29 November 2005 through 2 December 2005
ER -