2012/01/14 by Adam Goldstein, J. Michael Burgess, Robert D. Preece +25 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0067-0049/199/1/19
published as Astrophysical Journal Supplements 199 (2012) 19-45 · 43 pages, 24 Figures, accepted to ApJ Supplements; http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html
arxiv created 2012/01/14 · arxiv updated 2012/03/05
We present systematic spectral analyses of GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first two years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra extracted from 487 GRBs, and by fitting four different spectral models, this results in a compendium of over 3800 spectra. The models were selected based on their empirical importance to the spectral shape of many GRBs, and the analysis performed was devised to be as thorough and objective as possible. We describe in detail our procedure and criteria for the analyses, and present the bulk results in the form of parameter distributions. This catalog should be considered an official product from the Fermi GBM Science Team, and the data files containing the complete results are available from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC).