Accessing the population of high redshift Gamma Ray Bursts

Understand

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are a powerful probe of the high redshift Universe.

• We present a tool to estimate the detection rate of high-z GRBs by a generic detector with defined energy band and sensitivity.
• We base this on a population model that reproduces the observed properties of GRBs detected by Swift, Fermi and CGRO in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands.
• We provide the expected cumulative distributions of the flux and fluence of simulated GRBs in different energy bands.