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Michael S. Briggs
Researcher at University of Alabama in Huntsville
Publications - 120
Citations - 4026
Michael S. Briggs is an academic researcher from University of Alabama in Huntsville. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 120 publications receiving 3639 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael S. Briggs include University of Alabama & Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Detection of a Thermal Spectral Component in the Prompt Emission of GRB 100724B
Sylvain Guiriec,Valerie Connaughton,Michael S. Briggs,Michael Burgess,Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,Frédéric Daigne,Frédéric Daigne,Peter Mészáros,Adam Goldstein,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,Nicola Omodei,P. N. Bhat,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Ascension Camero-Arranz,Vandiver Chaplin,Roland Diehl,Gerald Fishman,Suzanne Foley,Melissa Gibby,Misty Giles,Jochen Greiner,David Gruber,Andreas von Kienlin,Marc Kippen,Chryssa Kouveliotou,Sheila McBreen,Charles A. Meegan,William S. Paciesas,Robert D. Preece,Arne Rau,Dave Tierney,Alexander J. van der Horst,Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge +34 more
TL;DR: In this article, the spectrum is dominated by the typical Band functional form, which is usually taken to represent a non-thermal emission component, but also includes a statistically highly significant thermal spectral contribution.
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Identification and Properties of the Photospheric Emission in GRB090902B
Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,Magnus Axelsson,Bin-Bin Zhang,S. McGlynn,S. McGlynn,Asaf Pe'er,Christoffer Lundman,Christoffer Lundman,Stefan Larsson,Milan Battelino,Milan Battelino,Bing Zhang,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Johan Bregeon,Michael S. Briggs,James Chiang,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Sylvain Guiriec,Josefin Larsson,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,Sheila McBreen,Nicola Omodei,Vahé Petrosian,Robert D. Preece,A. J. van der Horst +27 more
TL;DR: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed the bright and long GRB090902B, lying at a redshift of z = 1822 together with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) as discussed by the authors.
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Evolution of the Low-Energy Photon Spectra in Gamma-Ray Bursts
Anthony Crider,Edison Liang,Ian Smith,Robert D. Preece,Michael S. Briggs,G. N. Pendleton,William S. Paciesas,David L. Band,James L. Matteson +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a high degree of positive correlation exists between the time-resolved spectral break energy Epk and a. They also found that in the flux rise phase of hard-to-soft pulses, the mean value of a is often positive, and the explosion's maximum value is inconsistent with a.
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The Fourth Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: A Decade of Data
A. von Kienlin,Charles A. Meegan,William S. Paciesas,P. N. Bhat,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Michael S. Briggs,Eric Burns,W. H. Cleveland,Melissa Gibby,Misty Giles,Adam Goldstein,Rachel Hamburg,C. M. Hui,Dale D. Kocevski,Bagrat Mailyan,Christian Malacaria,Christian Malacaria,S. Poolakkil,Robert D. Preece,Oliver J. Roberts,Péter Veres,Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the fourth in a series of catalogs of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with Fermi's Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM).
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Identification and properties of the photospheric emission in GRB090902B
Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,Magnus Axelsson,Bin-Bin Zhang,S. McGlynn,S. McGlynn,Asaf Pe'er,Christoffer Lundman,Christoffer Lundman,Stefan Larsson,Milan Battelino,Milan Battelino,Bing Zhang,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Johan Bregeon,Michael S. Briggs,James Chiang,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Sylvain Guiriec,Josefin Larsson,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,Sheila McBreen,Nicola Omodei,Vahé Petrosian,Robert D. Preece,A. J. van der Horst +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the photosphere gives rise to a strong quasi-blackbody spectrum which is somewhat broader than a single Planck function and has a characteristic temperature of ~290keV.