Abstract

The strongest gamma-ray burst (GRB) of the century, GRB20221009A, has been detected by the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Gamma-ray Spectrometer (KGRS) instrument onboard the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). KGRS uses a LaBr3 detector to measure GRB counts with five energy bins in the energy range from 30 keV to 12 MeV. KGRS detected GRB221009A at a distance of 1.508 million kilometers from the Earth. The full duration of the main burst was recorded between 13:20 and 13:26 on October 9, 2022 with peak counts of over 1000 times background. The dead time of KGRS reached as high as 50%, and the intrinsic gamma-ray spectrum of LaBr3 was significantly altered.

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Title
The GRB221009A gamma-ray burst as revealed by the gamma-ray spectrometer onboard the KPLO (Danuri)
Author
Kim, K. J. 1 ; Kim, S. Y. 1 ; Paige, D. 2 ; Grodner, J. 3 ; Choi, Y. 4 ; Park, J. H. 4 ; Kim, Y. K. 5 ; Park, K. S. 6 ; Lee, K. B. 3 ; Yamashita, N. 7 ; Berezhnoy, A. A. 8 ; Wöhler, C. 9 

 Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, Geology and Space Division, Daejeon, South Korea (GRID:grid.410882.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 0436 1602); University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.412786.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1791 8264) 
 University of California, Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angles, USA (GRID:grid.468726.9) (ISNI:0000 0004 0486 2046) 
 Princeton University, Princeton, USA (GRID:grid.16750.35) (ISNI:0000 0001 2097 5006) 
 Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, Geology and Space Division, Daejeon, South Korea (GRID:grid.410882.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 0436 1602) 
 Nucare(Inc), Osong, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.410882.7) 
 Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.410883.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 2301 0664) 
 Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, USA (GRID:grid.423138.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0637 3991) 
 Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia (GRID:grid.14476.30) (ISNI:0000 0001 2342 9668) 
 TU Dortmund University, Image Analysis Group, Dortmund, Germany (GRID:grid.5675.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 0416 9637) 
Pages
19062
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3093954398
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.