The Interplanetary Network

¹ U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, USA
² Institute for Space Research, Profsojuznaja 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russian Federation
³ University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
⁴ Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194021, Russian Federation
⁵ Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, U.C. Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
⁶ Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
⁷ Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, Garching, 85748 Germany
⁸ Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan
⁹ Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
¹¹ Department of Physics, Kanazawa University, Kadoma-cho, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
¹² Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
¹³ Makishima Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
¹⁴ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
¹⁵ Emeritus
¹⁶ Joint Center for Astrophysics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
¹⁷ Universities Space Research Association, 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
¹⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
¹⁹ Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, USA
²⁰ INAF/IASF-Roma, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
²¹ INAF/IASF-Bologna, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
²² University of Alabama in Huntsville, NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
²³ Universities Space Research Association, NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
²⁴ UMBC/CRESST/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
²⁵ CRESST/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

Abstract

We describe the current, 9-spacecraft Interplanetary Network (IPN). The IPN detects about 325 gamma-ray bursts per year, of which about 100 are not localized by any other missions. We give some examples of how the data, which are public, can be utilized.