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Publications and Documents
(with MPE authors)

Publications       Talks and Poster       Documents      

• Fermi/GBM observations of the ultra-long GRB 091024: A burst with an optical flash
  Gruber D., Krühler T., Foley S., et al.
  arXiv:1101.1099v1 [astro-ph.HE] (2011)
  
  
• When a Standard Candle Flickers
  Wilson Colleen, Cherry M. L., Case G. L., et al.
  American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #434.01 (2011)
  
  
• Associations between Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor terrestrial gamma ray flashes and sferics from the World Wide Lightning Location Network
  Connaughton V., Briggs M. S., Holzworth R. H., et al.
  Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue A12, CiteID A12307 (2010)
  
  
• Time-resolved Spectroscopy of the Three Brightest and Hardest Short Gamma-ray Bursts Observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
  Guiriec Sylvain, Briggs Michael S., Connaugthon Valerie, et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 725, Issue 1, pp. 225-241 (2010)
  
  
• Detection of a Thermal Spectral Component in the Prompt Emission of GRB 100724B
  Guiriec Sylvain, Connaughton Valerie, Briggs Michael S., et al.
  arXiv:1010.4601v2 [astro-ph.HE] (2010)
  
  
• When A Standard Candle Flickers
  Wilson-Hodge Colleen A., Cherry Michael L., Baumgartner Wayne H., et al.
  arXiv:1010.2679v1 [astro-ph.HE] (2010)
  
  
• First Results from Fermi GBM Earth Occultation Monitoring: Observations of Soft Gamma-Ray Sources Above 100 keV
  Case Gary L., Cherry Michael L., Rodi James C., et al.
  arXiv:1009.4953v1 [astro-ph.HE] (2010)
  
  
• First results on terrestrial gamma ray flashes from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
  Briggs M. S., Fishman G. J., Connaughton V., et al.
  Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue A7, CiteID A07323 (2010)
  
  
• Fermi Observations of High-energy Gamma-ray Emission from GRB 090217A
  Ackermann, M.; Ajello, M.; Baldini, L. et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 717, Issue 2, pp. L127-L132 (2010).
  
  
• Fermi Observations of GRB 090510: A Short-Hard Gamma-ray Burst with an Additional, Hard Power-law Component from 10 keV TO GeV Energies
  Ackermann, M.; Asano, K.; Atwood, W. B., et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 716, Issue 2, pp. 1178-1190 (2010).
  
  
• A new analysis of the short-duration, hard-spectrum GRB 051103, a possible extragalactic soft gamma repeater giant flare
  Hurley K., Rowlinson A., Bellm E., et al.
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 403, Issue 1, pp. 342-352 (2010).
  
  
• ERRATUM: "Magnetar Twists: Fermi/Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Detection of SGR J1550-5418" (2010, ApJ, 710, 1335)
  Kaneko Yuki, Gü,g s Ersin, Kouveliotou Chryssa, et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 712, Issue 1, pp. 761 (2010).
  
  
• Fermi Detection of Delayed GeV Emission from the Short Gamma-Ray Burst 081024B
  Abdo, A. A.; Ackermann, M.; Ajello, M., et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 712, Issue 1, pp. 558-564 (2010).
  
  
• Discovery of a New Soft Gamma Repeater: SGR J0418 + 5729
  van der Horst A. J., Connaughton V., Kouveliotou C. et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 711, Issue 1, pp. L1-L6 (2010).
  
  
• High-Energy Observation of GRB 090217 with Fermi
  Cutini S., Piron F., von Kienlin A.
  SCIENCE WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EXPERIMENTS:
  Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Gamma-Ray Physics in the LHC Era.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1223, pp. 233-238 (2010).
  
  
• SGR 1550-5418: The Active Episodes of October 2008 and March 2009 as Detected with FGST/GBM
  von Kienlin, Andreas; Kouveliotou, C.; van der Horst, A.; Kaneko, Y.; Gogus, E.; Fermi/GBM Magnetar team
  American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #16.18;
  Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.681 (2010)
  
  
• Magnetar Twists: Fermi/Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Detection of SGR J1550-5418
  Kaneko Yuki, G g s Ersin, Kouveliotou Chryssa, et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 710, Issue 2, pp. 1335-1342 (2010).
  
  
• Swift and Fermi Observations of the Early Afterglow of the Short Gamma-Ray Burst 090510
  De Pasquale M., Schady P., Kuin N. P. M., et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 709, Issue 2, pp. L146-L151 (2010).
  
  
• Integrating the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor into the 3rd Interplanetary Network
  Hurley K., Briggs M., Connaughton V., et al.
  arXiv:0912.4294v1 [astro-ph.HE] (2009)
  
  
• Fermi Observations of High-energy Gamma-ray Emission from GRB 080825C
  Abdo A. A., Ackermann M., Asano K., et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 707, Issue 1, pp. 580-592 (2009).
  
  
• Fermi GBM Observations of TGFs
  Briggs M. S., Fishman G. J., Connaughton V., et al.
  American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #AE31A-04 (2009)
  
  
• A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects
  Abdo A. A., Ackermann M., Ajello, M., et al.
  Nature, Volume 462, Issue 7271, pp. 331-334 (2009).
  
  
• Fermi Observations of GRB 090902B: A Distinct Spectral Component in the Prompt and Delayed Emission
  Abdo A. A., Ackermann M., Ajello, M., et al.
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 706, Issue 1, pp. L138-L144 (2009).
  
  
• The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
  Charles Meegan, Giselher Lichti, P. N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Roland Diehl, Gerald Fishman, Jochen Greiner, Andrew S. Hoover, Alexander J. van der Horst, Andreas von Kienlin, R. Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sheila McBreen, W. S. Paciesas, Robert Preece, Helmut Steinle, Mark S. Wallace, Robert B. Wilson, Colleen Wilson-Hodge
  The Astrophysical Journal, 702, 791-804 (2009)
  
  
• On-Orbit Performance of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
  Meegan, Charles; Bhat, P. N.; Bissaldi, Elisabetta; Briggs, Michael; Connaughton, Valerie; Diehl, Roland; Fishman, Gerald; Greiner, Jochen; Hoover, Andrew S.; van der Horst, Alexander; von Kienlin, Andreas; Kippen, R. Marc; Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Lichti, Giselher; Paciesas, William; Preece, Robert; Steinle, Helmut; Wallace, Mark S.; Wilson-Hodge, Colleen
  GAMMA-RAY BURST: Sixth Huntsville Symposium.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 1133, 7-11 (2009)
  
  
• Fermi GBM: Main detector-level calibration results
  Bissaldi, E.; von Kienlin, A.; Lichti, G.; Steinle, H.; Bhat, P. N.; Briggs, M. S.; Fishman, G. J.; Hoover, A. S.; Kippen, R. M.; Krumrey, M.; Gerlach, M.; Connaughton, V.; Diehl, R.; Greiner, J.; van der Horst, A. J.; Kouveliotou, C.; McBreen, S.; Meegan, C. A.; Paciesas, W. S.; Preece, R. D.; Wilson-Hodge, C. A.
  GAMMA-RAY BURST: Sixth Huntsville Symposium.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 1133, 37-39 (2009)
  
  
• Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB 080916C
  Abdo A.A.,Ackermann M., Arimoto M., et al.
  Science, 323, Issue 5922, 1688- (2009)
  
  
• Ground-based calibration and characterization of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Detectors
  Elisabetta Bissaldi, Andreas von Kienlin, Giselher G. Lichti, Helmut Steinle, P. Narayana Bhat, Michael S. Briggs, Gerald J. Fishman, Andrew S. Hoover, R. Marc Kippen, Michael Krumrey, Martin Gerlach, Valerie Connaughton, Roland Diehl, Jochen Greiner, Alexander J. van der Horst, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sheila McBreen, Charles A. Meegan, William S. Paciesas, Robert D. Preece, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge
  Experimental Astronomy, 24, Issue 1-3, 47-88 (2009)
  
  
• GLAST Burst Monitor Instrument Simulation and Modeling
  Hoover A.S., Kippen R.M., Wallace M.S., Pendleton G.N., Fishman G.J., Meegan C.A., Kouveliotou C., Wilson-Hodge C.A., Bissaldi E., Diehl R., Greiner J., Lichti G., Kienlin A. von, Steinle H., Bhat N.P., Briggs M.S., Connaughton V., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D.
  in: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference "GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 2007";
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 1000, 565-568 (2008)
  
  
• Expected Performance of the GLAST Burst Monitor
  Meegan C., Bhat N., Bissaldi E., Briggs M., Connaughton V., Diehl R., Fishman G., Greiner J., Kienlin A. von, Kippen R. M., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G., Paciesas W., Preece R., Steinle H., Wilson-Hodge C.
  In: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference "GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 2007";
  AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1000, pp. 573-576 (2008)

• GLAST Burst Monitor Instrument Simulation and Modeling
  Hoover A.S., Kippen R.M., Wallace M.S., Pendleton G.N., Fishman G.J., Meegan C.A., Kouveliotou C., Wilson-Hodge C.A., Bissaldi E., Diehl R., Greiner J., Lichti G., Kienlin A. von, Steinle H., Bhat N.P., Briggs M.S., Connaughton V., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D.
  In: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference "GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 2007";
  AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1000, pp. 565-568 (2008)

• GLAST Burst Monitor Signal Processing System
  Bhat P.N., Briggs M., Connaughton V., Diehl R., Fishman G., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., von Kienlin A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G., Meegan C., Paciesas W., Persyn S., Preece R., Steinle H., and Wilson-Hodge C.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 524-525 (2007)

• GLAST Burst Monitor On-Board Triggering, Locations and Event Classification
  Briggs M.S., Connaughton V., Paciesas W., Preece R., Meegan C., Fishman G., Kouveliotou C., Wilson-Hodge C., Diehl R., Greiner J., von Kienlin A., Lichti G., Steinle H., and Kippen R.M.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 450-451 (2007)

• Validation of the GLAST Burst Monitor Instrument Response Simulation Software
  Hoover A.S., Wallace M.S., Klimenko A., Kippen R.M., Pendleton G.N., Meegan C.A., Fishman G.J., Wilson-Hodge C.A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., von Kienlin A., Steinle H., Diehl R., Greiner J., Bissaldi E., Preece R.D., Connaughton V., Briggs M. S., Paciesas W.S., Bhat P.N.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 552-553 (2007)

• High-Energy Calibration of a BGO detector of the GLAST Burst Monitor
  von Kienlin A., Fishman G.J., Briggs M.S., Gofrey G.L., und Steinle H.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  AIP Conference Proceedings 921, 576-577 (2007) Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 576-577 (2007)

• Calibration of the GLAST Burst Monitor detectors
  von Kienlin A., Bissaldi E., Lichti G.G., Steinle H., Krumrey M., Gerlach M.,, Fishman G.J., Meegan C., Bhat N., Briggs M.S., Diehl R., Connaughton V., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Paciesas W., Preece R., and Wilson-Hodge C.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 578-579 (2007)

• Instrument Response Modeling and Simulation for the GLAST Burst Monitor
  Kippen R.M., Hoover A.S., Wallace M.S., Pendleton G.N., Meegan C.A., Fishman G.J., Wilson-Hodge C.A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., von Kienlin A., Steinle H., Diehl R., Greiner J., Preece R.D., Connaughton V., Briggs M.S., Paciesas W.S., Bhat P.N.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 590-591 (2007)

• The GLAST Burst Monitor
  Meegan Ch., Bhat N., Connaughton V., Briggs M., Diehl R., Fishman G., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., von Kienlin A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G., Paciesas W., Preece R., Steinle H., and Wilson-Hodge C.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Talk)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 13-15 (2007)

• Understanding the GLAST Burst Monitor Detector Calibration:
  A Detailed Simulation of the Calibration Including the Environment
  Steinle H., von Kienlin A., Bissaldi E., Lichti G., Diehl R., Greiner J., Meegan C.A., Fishman G.J., Kouveliotou C., Wilson-Hodge C., Paciesas W.S., Preede R.D., Briggs M.S., Bhat P.N., Connaughton V., Kippen R.M., Hoover A.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 572-573 (2007)

• Full Spacecraft Source Modeling and Validation for the GLAST Burst Monitor
  Wallace M.S., Kippen R.M., Hoover A.S., Pendleton G.N., Meegan C.A., Fishman G.J., Wilson-Hodge C.A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., von Kienlin A., Steinle H., Diehl R., Greiner J., Schönfelder V., Preece R.D., Connaughton V., Briggs M.S., Paciesas W.S., Bhat P.N.
  Proceedings: "The First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, February 5-8, 2007 (Poster)
  Eds.: Ritz S., Michelson P., Meegan Ch.
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 921, 580-581 (2007)

• Current Status of the GBM Project
  Lichti G.G., Bhat N., Briggs M., Connaughton V., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Meegan C.A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Steinle H., and von Kienlin A.
  Proceedings: "Symposium on GRB's", Stockholm, Schweden, 2006 (Talk)
  AIP Conference Proceedings, 906, 119-126 (2007)

• Measurements of Gamma-Ray Bursts with GLAST
  Steinle H., Bhat N.P., Briggs M.S., Connaughton V., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., von Kienlin A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., Meegan C.A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., and Wilson R.B.
  Proceedings: "Frascati Workshop", Vulcano, Italien, 23.-28. Mai 2005 (Talk)
  Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 6, suppl. 1, 365-368 (2006)

• The GLAST Burst Monitor on the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope
  Connaughton V., Bhat P.N., Briggs M.S., Diehl R., Fishman G., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., von Kienlin A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G., Meegan C.A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Steinle H., Wilson-Hodge C.
  American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting 9, #18.10 (2006)

• The GLAST burst monitor instrument response simulation system
  Hoover A.S., Kippen R.M., Meegan C.A., Fishman G.J., Wilson R.B., Wilson-Hodge C.A., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., von Kienlin A., Diehl R., Greiner J., Schönfelder V., Steinle H., Preece R.D., Briggs M.S., Paciesas W.S., Bhat P.N., Connaughton V.
  Proceedings: .................
  Il Nuovo Cimento C, vol. 28, Issue 4, pp.797-800 (2005)

• The GLAST Burst Monitor
  von Kienlin A., Meegan Ch.A., Lichti G.G., Bhat N.P., Briggs M.S., Connaughton V., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Schönfelder V., Steinle H., Wilson R.B.
  Proceedings: "UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems" SPIE conference, Glasgow, Schottland, 2004 (Talk)
  Proceedings of the SPIE, 5488, 763-770 (2004)

• The GLAST Burst Monitor
  Bhat P.N., Meegan Ch.A., Lichti G.G., Briggs M.S., Connaughton V., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C, Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Sch nfelder V., Wilson R.B., and von Kienlin A.
  Proceedings: "Gamma-Ray Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery" conference, Santa Fe, NM, USA 2003 (Talk)
  AIP Conference Proceedings 727, 684-687 (2004)

• Measurements of Gamma-Ray Bursts with GLAST
  Lichti G.G., Briggs M., Diehl R., Fishman G., Greiner J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Meegan C., Paciesas W., Preece R., Schönfelder V., and von Kienlin A.
  Proceedings: JENAM conference, Budapest, Hungary, August 2003 (Talk)
  Baltic Astronomy, Vol. 13, p. 311-316 (2004)

• GBM - A Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor for GLAST
  Lichti G., Briggs M., Diehl R., Fishman G., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Meegan C., Paciesas W., Preece R., Schönfelder V., and von Kienlin A.
  Proceedings: SPIE conference, Hawaii, HI, USA 2002 (Talk)
  Proceedings of the SPIE, 4851, 1180-1187 (2003)

• The GLAST Burst Monitor
  Meegan Ch.A., Lichti G.G., Briggs M.S., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., von Kienlin A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., and Schönfelder V.
  Proceedings: "Gamma-Ray Bursts and Afterglow Astronomy 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission, Woods Hole, MA, USA, 5.-9. November 2001
  AIP Conference Proceedings 662, 469-472 (2003)

• Der GLAST Burst Monitor
  Sekundärinstrument auf GLAST mit deutscher Beteiligung
  Lichti G.G. and von Kienlin A.
  Sterne und Weltraum, 7/2001, p. 528 ff;
  submitted manuscript (pdf; 123 kB)

• The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)
  Kippen R.M., Briggs M.S., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Georgii R., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., Meegan C.A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Schönfelder V., von Kienlin A.
  Proceedings: "Gamma 2001: Gamma-ray Astrophysics" conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, 4.-6. April 2001
  AIP conf. proc. 587, 801, 2001

• The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)
  Lichti G.G., Briggs M.S., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Georgii R., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Meegan C.A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Schönfelder V., von Kienlin A.
  Proceedings: "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era" Burst Workshop, Rome, Italy (2000)
  ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. ISBN 3-540-42771-6. Edited by E. Costa, F. Frontera, and J. Hjorth. Springer-Verlag, 2001, p. 371

• A Gamma-ray Burst Monitor for GLAST
  von Kienlin A., Briggs M.S., Diehl R., Fishman G.J., Georgii R., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Lichti G.G., Meegan C.A., Paciesas W.S., Preece R.D., Schönfelder V.
  Proceedings: 4. Integral Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2000
  ESA SP-459, 529-532 (2001)

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Talks and Poster

• Understanding the GLAST Burst Monitor Detector Calibration:
  A Detailed Simulation of the Calibration Including the Environment
  Steinle H., von Kienlin A., Bissaldi E., Lichti G., Diehl R., Greiner J., Meegan C.A., Fishman G.J., Kouveliotou C., Wilson-Hodge C., Paciesas W.S., Preede R.D., Briggs M.S., Bhat P.N., Connaughton V., Kippen R.M., Hoover A.
  Poster presented at the "First GLAST Symposium", Stanford, CA, USA, 5.-8. Februar 2007
  Poster (ppt)

• Measurements of Gamma-Ray Bursts with GLAST
  Lichti G.G., Briggs M., Diehl R., Fishman G,, Greiner J., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Meegan C., Paciesas W., Preece R., Schönfelder V., and von Kienlin A.
  Talk given at the JENAM Conference, Budapest, Hungary, August 2003
  Viewgraphs (pdf)

• Measurements of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the GLAST Burst Monitor
  Lichti G.G.
  Talk given at the Technische Universität München, Germany, spring 2003
  Viewgraphs (pdf)

• GBM
  von Kienlin A.
  Poster presented at the 4. INTEGRAL Workshop in Alicante, Spain, September 2000
  Poster (PostScript)

• Ein Gammastrahlen-Burst-Monitor f r GLAST
  von Kienlin A.
  Talk given at the DPG Frü,hjahrstagung in Bremen, Germany, March 2000
  Viewgraphs

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Documents

	GBM proposal to DLR (1999-10-04; in German language; PostScript format; 9.2 MB)
	GBM proposal to NASA (1999-11)