Spectral Properties


3rd Huntsville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts
Symposium Program

Oral

S-1
David L. Band (CASS/UC San Diego)
Gamma-Ray Burst Continua: A Review

S-2
Michael S. Briggs (UAH)
Spectral Features in Gamma-Ray Bursts

S-3
Robert B. Wilson, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Michael Briggs, R. Preece, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Don Q. Lamb, Peter E. Freeman, University of Chicago, D. Band, UC San Diego
An Assessment of BATSE SD Spectral Response Using Observations of Her X-1 and the Crab Pulsar

S-4
P. E. Freeman, D. Q. Lamb (Chicago), R. B. Wilson (MSFC), M. Briggs, W. Paciesas, R. Preece (U. Alabama in Huntsville), D. Band (UCSD)
BATSE SD OBSERVATIONS OF HERCULES X-1

S-5
Michael Isenberg, D. Q. Lamb (U. Chicago), John C. L. Wang (U. Maryland)
Cyclotron Line Formation in a Relativistic Outflow

S-6
J. J. Brainerd, R. D. Preece, G. N. Pendelton, M. S. Briggs, W. S. Paciesas (Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville)
Testing the Compton Attenuation Theory of GRB Spectra

S-7
B. J. Teegarden (CESR, on leave from NASA/GSFC), T. L. Cline, N. Gehrels, D. Palmer, R. Ramaty, H. Seifert (NASA/GSFC), K. H. Hurley (UCB), and A. Owens (U. of Leicester)
TGRS Gamma-Ray Burst Spectroscopy: Preliminary Results

S-8
Geoffrey N. Pendleton, Michael S. Briggs, Robert D. Preece, Robert S. Mallozzi, William S. Paciesas (Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville) Gerald J. Fishman, Charles A. Meegan (NASA/MSFC) Chryssa Kouveliotou (USRA)
Recent Gamma-Ray Burst Continuum Observations and their implications for line features in Gamma-Ray Bursts

S-9
Anton Chernenko et al.
Types of Rate-Rate Diagrams of BATSE GRBs

S-10
R. D. Preece, M. S. Briggs, G. N. Pendleton, W. S. Paciesas (UAH) J. L. Matteson, D. L. Band (CASS, UCSD) C. A. Meegan (NASA, MSFC)
BATSE Observations of GRB Spectra at Low Energies

S-11
Edison Liang, Ian Smith, Anthony Crider, Bryan Dunne (Rice U.) Vincent Kargatis (Hughes STX)
Study of Spectral Hardness Measures of GRBs using the BATSE 3B Catalogue and SD Database

S-12
Robert S. Mallozzi (UAH), William S. Paciesas (UAH), Geoffrey N. Pendleton (UAH), Michael S. Briggs (UAH), Robert D. Preece (UAH) Charles A. Meegan (MSFC), Gerald J. Fishman (MSFC)
The nuF_nu Peak Energy Distributions of Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by BATSE

S-13
Eli Waxman (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Cosmic Ray Flux Above 10^19 eV


Poster

S-P1
D. Band, L. Ford, J. Matteson (CASS/UC San Diego), M. Briggs, W. Paciesas, G. Pendleton, R. Preece (UAH), D. Palmer, B. Teegarden (GSFC)
The Statistics of the Search for Absorption Lines in Burst Spectra

S-P2
Michael S. Briggs, Robert D. Preece, Geoffrey N. Pendleton, William S. Paciesas (UAH), David L. Band, Lyle Ford and James L. Matteson (UCSD)
A Comprehensive Search for Low-Energy Lines in BATSE GRBs

S-P3
J.R. Catelli (UMCP/GSFC), B.L. Dingus (GSFC/USRA), E.J. Schneid (Northrop-Grumma
EGRET TASC Observations of the Bright April 25, 1995 Burst

S-P4
Lyle Ford and David Band (UCSD)
Extrapolations of BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra to the Optical-UV Band

S-P5
Lyle Ford, David Band, Jim Matteson (UCSD)
Short Time Scale Characteristics of Gamma-Ray Burst Continua

S-P6
J. Greiner, T. Aigner, M. Sommer (MPE Garching), M. Kippen (Univ. New Hampshire), O.R. Williams (ESTEC Noordwijk), K. Hurley (SSL, Univ. California) R. Preece (MSFC Huntsville)
Multi-instrument spectral fitting of GRBs

S-P7
X.-M. Hua (Goddard Space Flight Center/National Research Council), R. E. Lingenfelter (University of California, San Diego)
EFFECTS OF COMPTON SCATTERING ON BATSE GAMMA RAY BURST SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

S-P8
Vincent Kargatis, Edison Liang (Rice University)
Analysis Results of GRB Spectral Evolution

S-P9
R.M. Kippen, J. Ryan, A. Connors, M. McConnell (University of New Hampshire), C. Winkler, L.O. Hanlon (Astrophysics Division, ESTEC), V. Schonfelder, J. Greiner, M. Varendorff, W. Collmar (Max-Planck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik), W. Hermsen and L. Kuiper (SRON-Utrecht)
COMPTEL Measurements of MeV Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra

S-P10
Ramesh Narayan and Tsvi Piran
Are There MeV Gamma-Ray Bursts?

S-P11
D.M. Palmer, H. Seifert (USRA, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) B.J. Teegarden (CESR, on leave from NASA/GSFC) N. Gehrels, T.L. Cline, R. Ramaty (NASA/GSFC) K. Hurley (University of California, Berkeley) R. Pehl, N. Madden (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) A. Owens (U. of Leicester)
High Resolution GRB Spectra from the Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS)

S-P12
G. N. Pendleton, W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece, M. S. Briggs (Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville)
Detailed Spectral Analysis of a large set of GRBs observed by BATSE and comparison with other burst observables

S-P13
R. D. Preece, M. S. Briggs, G. N. Pendleton, W. S. Paciesas (UAH) D. L. Band, L. A. Ford (CASS, UCSD)
Time-resolved Spectroscopy with the BATSE LADs: High-Energy Behavior

S-P14
Bradley E. Schaefer (Yale)
BURST SPECTRA OVER A WIDE ENERGY RANGE

S-P15
E.J. Schneid (Northrop Grumman Corp.),D.L. Bertsch, J. Catelli, B.L. Dingus, J.A. Esposito, C.E. Fichtel, R.C. Hartman, S.D. Hunter, C. von Montigny, R. Mukherjee, P. Sreekumar, D.J. Thompson (NASA/GSFC) , G. Kanbach, H.A. Mayer-Hasselwander (MPE - Garching), D.A. Kniffen (Hampden-Syndey College), Y.C. Lin, P.F. Michelson, P.L. Nolan (Stanford Univ.)
TASC Measurements/Upper Limits for Energetic Gamma-Ray Bursts Within the EGRET Field of View

S-P16
H. Seifert, B. Mitra, D.M. Palmer (USRA, NASA/GSFC), B.J. Teegarden (CESR, on leave from NASA/GSFC), N. Gehrels, T.L. Cline, R. Ramaty (NASA/GSFC), A. Owens (U. of Leicester), R. Pehl, N. Madden (LBL), and K. Hurley (UCB)
The Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS) Response Matrices


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