Bibcode
Jenke, P. A.; Linares, M.; Connaughton, V.; Beklen, E.; Camero-Arranz, A.; Finger, M. H.; Wilson-Hodge, C. A.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 826, Issue 2, article id. 228, 15 pp. (2016).
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Description
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all-sky gamma-ray monitor
well known in the gamma-ray burst (GRB) community. Although GBM excels
in detecting the hard, bright extragalactic GRBs, its sensitivity above
8 keV and its all-sky view make it an excellent instrument for the
detection of rare, short-lived Galactic transients. In 2010 March, we
initiated a systematic search for transients using GBM data. We conclude
this phase of the search by presenting a three-year catalog of 1084
X-ray bursts. Using spectral analysis, location, and spatial
distributions we classified the 1084 events into 752 thermonuclear X-ray
bursts, 267 transient events from accretion flares and X-ray pulses, and
65 untriggered gamma-ray bursts. All thermonuclear bursts have peak
blackbody temperatures broadly consistent with photospheric radius
expansion (PRE) bursts. We find an average rate of 1.4 PRE bursts per
day, integrated over all Galactic bursters within about 10 kpc. These
include 33 and 10 bursts from the ultra-compact X-ray binaries 4U
0614+09 and 2S 0918-549, respectively. We discuss these recurrence times
and estimate the total mass ejected by PRE bursts in our Galaxy.