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A. Rau, A.von Kienlin & G.G. Lichti

Gamma-Ray Bursts detected by SPI-ACS.

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A. Rau, A.von Kienlin & G.G. Lichti

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  1. Gamma-Ray Bursts detected by SPI-ACS Abstract:The anticoincidence shield (ACS) of the spectrometer onboard INTEGRAL (SPI) is operated as a quasi omnidirectional gamma-ray burst (GRB) detector above ~75 keV. Since the start of the mission in October 2002 more than 300 GRB candidates have been detected. 50% of these could be confirmed and partly localized by the -ray instruments included in the 3rd Interplanetary Network. The previously known bimodality of durations is detected in the sample. A prominent population of short burst candidates (<200 ms) is found, which however is contaminated by events from cosmic-ray nuclei interactions in the detectors. SPI-ACS as GRB detector: The SPI-ACS consists of 91 BGO crystals and can detect GRBs nearly omnidirectional above ~75 keV. The upper end of the energy range is somewhat uncertain, but >10 MeV. The overall detector count rate is recorded in 50 ms time bins. Software was developed to search for excesses in the time profile and to alert the interested community. SPI-ACS measurements do not provide spatial information but help to localize bursts via triangulation, being an important member of the 3rd Interplanetary Network (IPN). GRB GRB sample: Until August 2004 more than 300 GRB candidates have been detected (see bottom for examples). Nearly 50% of these candidates were also observed and confirmed by other IPN instruments. The sample exhibits the previously found bimodality in durations (peaks at 0.3s ~30s) but shows an unusually prominent population of short (<0.2 s) GRBs. Origin of the short event population: A significant fraction of the short events (e.g. event from March 3 2003) is accompanied by simultaneous saturation of one or several SPI detectors. Therefore, they are probably caused by , a very energetic cosmic-ray particle, which hits the BGO. This causes a so-called afterglow of several milliseconds in the crystal and leads to a repetitive event trigger. The particle is stopped in the SPI Ge-detectors and deposits enough energy to saturate the detectors (Rau et al. 2004). Reference: Rau A., von Kienlin A., Hurley K.& Lichti G.G. 2004, in Proc. of the 5th Integral Workshop, Munich A. Rau, A.von Kienlin & G.G. Lichti

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