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GAMMA-RAY BURST [4 records]

Record 1 2025-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics
  • Satellite Telecommunications
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

We examine a sample of 2301 gamma-ray bursts, detected by Konus-Wind in the triggered mode between 1994 and 2017 and localized by the interplanetary network(IPN), for evidence of gravitational lensing. We utilize all the available gamma-ray burst(GRB) data : time histories, localizations, and energy spectra. We employ common IPN techniques to find and quantify similarities in the light curves of 2, 646, 150 burst pairs, and for the pairs with significant similarities, we examine their IPN localizations to determine whether they are consistent with a common origin.

Key term(s)
  • SearchOnlyKey1

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique
  • Télécommunications par satellite
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

Les Français ont fourni des instruments composés de détecteurs gamma à scintillation aux Russes qui s'occupaient quant à eux de la plateforme 1 du satellite. En 1977, fut lancé l'instrument Signe 2 à bord de la mission russe Prognoz 6, en orbite autour de la Terre. Par la suite, le même instrument fut lancé à bord de deux satellites jumeaux appelés Prognoz 7, constituant deux membres du réseau interplanétaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Astronáutica
  • Telecomunicaciones por satélite
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

En 1976 empezó la red interplanetaria integrada por varios satélites [que] localizaron varios destellos con errores menores a un minuto de arco por medio de triangulación.

OBS

red interplanetaria: designación validada por un experto de la Comisión de Terminología, Sociedad Española de Astronomía, España.

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Record 2 2012-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • The Earth (Astronomy)
DEF

Violent outbursts of energy in the form of X-rays or gamma rays that are observable only above the earth’s atmospheric shield.

CONT

We report the detection of an unusual high-energy transient by the gamma-ray burst detector onboard the satellite Ginga. The spectral properties of this event, which we refer to as a Medium Energy Burst(MEB900129), place it between those of Type IX-ray bursts and classical gamma-ray bursts. The event was much softer than classical gamma-ray bursts, with a spectrum that peaks between 16-18 keV, and decreases both above and below the peak.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Terre (Astronomie)
CONT

L'Explorateur des phénomènes transitoires de haute énergie, un satellite dédié à l'étude des sursauts gamma cosmiques.

OBS

Les phénomènes cosmiques de haute énergie concernent notamment les objets compacts et leurs environnements (AGNs, Trous Noirs galactiques, microquasars, étoiles à neutrons et pulsars), impliquant l'accrétion de plasmas chauds et des phénomènes relativistes, souvent accompagnés d'éjections quasi continues (jets puissants) ou explosives (SuperNovae et Gamma Ray Bursts); ces éjections sont sources de rayonnements de haute énergie et de rayons cosmiques; ce sont, avec les défauts topologiques et les reliquats des transitions de phase primordiales, les explications possibles à l'énigme des rayons cosmiques de très haute énergie.

Key term(s)
  • transitoire de haute énergie

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
CONT

On October 27, 2002 around 8 : 34 UT the anti-coincidence subsystem(ACS) of the INTEGRAL-spectrometer SPI has observed its first gamma-ray burst(GRB).

Key term(s)
  • anticoincidence subsystem
  • anti-coincidence sub-system
  • anticoincidence sub-system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
Key term(s)
  • sous-système anticoïncidence

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics
CONT

The detection of an echo of a gamma-ray burst(GRB) caused by gravitational lensing is the only means of directly confirming the cosmological nature of bursts. The echo should appear within the same positional error box on the sky as the original burst, but will occur at a later time.

PHR

Positional error box of gamma-ray source.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique
PHR

Rectangle d'erreur de position de source de rayon gamma.

Spanish

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