The work described in the present Thesis has allowed an important astrophysical exploitation of GRBM data. Further significant steps forward are possible and efforts are already being made to do them as fast as possible.
Two major improvements are needed to go from the study of transient events localized, and sometimes detected, by other experiments to a study of all the transients detected from GRBM: an independent and possibly automatic and robust trigger capability and the capability of deriving position of transients by GRBM alone.
To arrive to these targets we are doing an extensive use of BATSE data. We are creating a catalogue of events detected by both satellites. The directional information from BATSE (jointed with solar flares and Soft Gamma Repeaters data), will allow the positional calibration of the GRBM. In this way, the GRBM will refine its localizing capabilities, which will not reach the BATSE accuracy in all directions, but could be very useful for events in directions where GRBM response is less ambiguous. Even a coarse localization may result in data of high interest. The Inter-Planetary Network (IPN3) is mainly based on the Ulysses/Low Earth Orbit Satellites. In the case of GRBM/Ulysses coincidences, because the Ulysses detector is relatively small and in a high background environment and the satellite is nowadays at about 2500 light seconds from the earth, in absence of any directional information a transient detected by GRBM must be searched in around 1.5 hours data and many marginal detections may be missed. Even a rough direction may limit the search of at least one order of magnitude making easier the automatic inclusion of BeppoSAX GRBs in IPN-3 (so far performed in a more manual way).
Also the joint exploitation of GRBM and RossiXTE All Sky Monitor capabilities, will benefit significantly of this improvement in the positioning capabilities of BeppoSAX GRBM. Nowadays GRBM triggers are sent to ASM Operation Center to start the search of ASM transient vents. An additional, even coarse positioning information will help to overcome the present difficulty in associating the GRBM events to the ASM transients.