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                            Linares, M.; Fermi GBM X-ray Burst Collaboration
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                                    "The First Year of MAXI: Monitoring Variable X-ray Sources", 4th International MAXI Workshop held November 30 - December 2, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Published online at http://maxi.riken.jp/FirstYear, id.21"
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                            Description
                                    We discuss the first results of the Fermi-GBM all-sky search for X-ray
bursts. The very large field of view and X-ray response of the Fermi-GBM
make it a unique instrument to study rare, bright and short-lived X-ray
bursts. We are performing a systematic search that exploits such
capabilities. We present results on long/intermediate type I X-ray
bursts, an unusual kind of thermonuclear bursts from accreting neutron
stars, and show how Fermi-GBM is giving for the first time robust
measurements of their recurrence time.