The Relativistic Astrophysics and the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Teams gave ten presentations at the 20th High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Waikiloa, HI, 3/26-30/23. Stephen Lesage (UAH graduate student) kicked off the first oral session on Monday with his talk entitled “Fermi GBM Analysis of GRB 221009A”, describing the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed. Peter Veres (UAH) also presented a poster about this exciting gamma-ray burst entitled “Physical Properties of the brightest gamma-ray burst based on Observations by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor.”
Tyson Littenberg (ST12) presented a talk entitled “Gravitational Waves and the Multimessenger Sky” on Tuesday in a Special Session entitled “MeV and friends: Gamma-ray astronomy in the context of time-domain and multi-messenger science.” Cori Fletcher (USRA) presented two posters entitled “A Fermi-GBM Subthreshold Search Optimized for Magnetars” and “The Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT in Coincidence with LVK O3 Events”. Peter Jenke (UAH) presented a poster entitled “The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Accreting Pulsar Program. Fifteen Years of Monitoring the Pulsed Sky”. Suraj Poolakkil (UAH graduate student) presented a poster entitled “Exploring Physically-Motivated Models to Fit Gamma-ray Burst Spectra.” Oliver Roberts presented a poster entitled “Magnetar Giant Flares Masquerading as GRBs.”
New missions were highlighted in two posters, “The StarBurst Multimessenger Pioneer” presented by Daniel Kocevski (ST12) and “The Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM)” by Peter Jenke (UAH).
