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 ====== Non-Bruce GRB Instrumentation Information ====== ====== Non-Bruce GRB Instrumentation Information ======
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 +====== Quick Links ======
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 +[[https://www-astro.lbl.gov/~bruce/docuwikis/brucework/doku.php?id=infotree:general_astro:observing#x-gamma_instruments_characteristics|General X- and gamma-ray instrument info table]] - instruments better for 0.1-10 keV included.
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 ====== Launches ====== ====== Launches ======
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- +====== Fermi GBM ====== 
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 +Fermi GBM is like a smaller version of BATSE; scintillators on the corners of cube geometry give all-sky (with earth occulting a LOT of the sky) coverage and rough localization.   
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 +===== GBM Localization ===== 
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 +The reference here is Connaughton+15 ApJS https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0067-0049/216/2/32#apjs506206s6.  
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 +Ground-Automated GCN NOtices 30-60 s after trigger give 68% probability within (+/- or radius) 7.6 deg; there is a much larger tail for like 90% probability. BRIGHT SUB-SAMPLE: GRBs reported with only 1 deg.  statistical uncertainty, 68% radius=2.9 deg.  
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 +one degree radius looks like it would get you about 10% of the Bright Sub-sample.  for a square FOV, that's 1.7 deg on a side - yuk.  two deg on a side gets you radius = 1.13 deg and around 17.5% of Bright sample events. So, that helps. 
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 +HiTL (Human in the Loop) positions are available ~ 1 hr later. 68% prob. radius=5.3 deg.  BRIGHT SUB-SAMPLE: for For GRBs reported with only 1 deg. statistical uncertainty, 68% radius=3.4 deg (yes, worse than automated).  
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