1. A low-latency pipeline for GRB light curve and spectrum using Fermi/GBM near real-time data
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Laiyu Zhang, Y. Zhao, Jianchao Sun, X. Y. Wen, Han-Cheng Li, Li-Ming Song, Bin-Bin Zhang, Yongjie Zhang, Yuan-Hao Wang, Shaolin Xiong, Zheng-Heng Li, Xi Long, Qiang Zhang, Bobing Wu, Qingcui Bu, Jian-Xiong Shao, M. Z. Feng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Basic Research Program (China), and National Thousand Young Talents program of China
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Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Gamma-ray bursts: general ,01 natural sciences ,general [Gamma-ray bursts] ,law.invention ,Telescope ,law ,Polarization ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Time domain astronomy ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms] ,Gravitational wave ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Polarimeter ,Light curve ,Polarization (waves) ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Gamma-ray burst ,Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - Abstract
14 pages, 8 figures. The paper has been accepted by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), Rapid response and short time latency are very important for Time Domain Astronomy, such as the observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gravitational waves (GWs). Based on near real-time Fermi/GBM data, we developed a low-latency pipeline to automatically calculate the temporal and spectral properties of GRBs. With this pipeline, some important parameters can be obtained, such as T and fluence, within ∼ 20 min after the GRB trigger. For ∼ 90% of GRBs, T and fluence are consistent with the GBM catalog results within 2σ errors. This pipeline has been used by the Gamma-ray Bursts Polarimeter (POLAR) and the Insight Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) to follow up the bursts of interest. For GRB 170817A, the first EM counterpart of GW events detected by Fermi/GBM and INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS, the pipeline gave T and spectral information 21 min after the GBM trigger, providing important information for POLAR and Insight-HXMT observations. © 2018 National Astronomical Observatories, CAS and IOP Publishing Ltd.., We thank the anonymous reviewer for helpful comments and suggestions. This work is supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB23040400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11403026, 11503028 and 11673023) and the National Basic Research Program of China (973 program, Grant No. 2014CB845800). BBZ acknowledges support from the National Thousand Young Talents programof China. We gratefully acknowledge support from the collaboration team of POLAR, a project funded by China National Space Administration (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE). The authors would also like to thank Jing Jin, Jinlu Qu, Xiaobo Li, Youli Tuo, Zijian Li, Mingyu Ge, Jinyuan Liao, Guangcheng Xiao, Yue Huang and Chengkui Li for their suggestions on data analysis and the revision of this paper.
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- 2018