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Prospects for Gamma-Ray Burst detection by the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Authors :
Elisabetta Bissaldi
Carlo Vigorito
Francesco Longo
T. Gasparetto
P. Vallania
T. Di Girolamo
F. Di Pierro
Morselli A., Rodriguez Fernandez G., Capone A.
Morselli, A.
Bissaldi, E.
Di Girolamo, T.
Di Pierro, F.
Gasparetto, T.
Longo, F.
Vallania, P.
Vigorito, C.
Bissaldi, E
Di Girolamo, T
Di Pierro, F
Gasparetto, Thoma
Longo, F
Vallania, P
Vigorito, C
Source :
EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 136, p 03019 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
EDP Sciences, 2017.

Abstract

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite is expected to publish a catalogue with more than 100 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected above 100 MeV thanks to a new detection algorithm and a new event reconstruction. This work aims at revising the prospects for GRB alerts with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) based on the new LAT results. We start considering the simulation of the observations with the full CTA of two extremely bright events, the long GRB 130427A and the short GRB 090510, then we investigate how these GRBs would be observed by a particular configuration of the array with the telescopes pointing to different directions in what is called the "coupled divergent mode".

Details

ISSN :
2100014X
Volume :
136
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
EPJ Web of Conferences
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....84f1333fbf308bd35e8b8439be760273