THE GAMMA-RAY BURST CATALOG OBTAINED WITH THE GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR ABOARD BeppoSAX

We report on the catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor aboard the BeppoSAX satellite. It includes 1082 GRBs with 40-700 keV fluences in the range from 1.3 × 10–7 to 4.5 × 10–4 erg cm–2, and 40-700 keV peak fluxes from 3.7 × 10–8 to 7.0 × 10–5 erg cm–2 s–1. We report in the catalog some relevant parameters of each GRB and discuss the derived statistical properties.

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