Abstract
The Fermi Gamma‐ray Burst Monitor (GBM) monitors the entire unocculted sky for transient activity in the energy range from 8 keV to 40 MeV. Now in operation for more than two years, GBM triggers not only on gamma‐ray bursts and other cosmic events such as bursts from magnetars but also on solar flares and terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes. GBM’s continuous data collection over the entire sky also allows continual hard X‐ray monitoring of persistent and transient sources using Earth occultation and pulsed source analysis techniques. In this paper I describe the GBM instrument and present some science highlights from GBM observations.
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