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The BATSE decade

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Gamma-Ray Bursts

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BATSE (for Burst and Transient Source Experiment) on Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) was certainly the most ambitious experiment specially designed to study GRBs. BATSE consisted of eight pairs of NaI detectors. Each pair included a Large Area Detector (LAD) and a Spectroscopy Detector (SD). The area of a Large Area Detector was 2000 cm2. With a sensitivity 5 to 10 times better than previous GRB detectors, BATSE detected an average of 1 GRB per day during the 9-year life of CGRO (1991–2000). These detectors were oriented in different directions to cover all the sky, and to localize GRBs crudely, with the techniques already used by Mazets with the Konus experiments. Due to the large dimensions of the detectors, the spectrum and the time profile of each burst were analyzed with unprecedented statistics. A quite complete review of the GRB situation and the possible models after 5 years of GRO-BATSE observations has been given by Fishman and Meegan (1995).

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