Gamma-ray bursts: discovering the progenitors and understanding the explosion - visits 85-86, UV, UW

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Gamma-ray burst astronomy, one of the most active and exciting frontiers in astrophysics, is now entering a critical stage - with dramatic leaps in our understanding of these events, as well as new discoveries imminent. In the upcoming year, improvements in triggering and positioning accuracy provided by the SAX and HETE-2 gamma-ray satellites will allow entirely new classes of events to be studied. Given the recent progress in this field, we are now in a position to design precision, broadband measurements that can provide quantitative information on the as-yet unknown energy sources, the explosion geometry, and the surrounding medium. In particular, the growing evidence of an intimate connection between SNe and GRBs can be definitively tested. Who can activate the proposal: Shri Kulkarni srk@astro.caltech.edu Work: {626} 395-4010 Mobile: {626} 676-4721 Home: {626} 795-7894 Alan Diercks ad@astro.caltech.edu Work: {626} 395-4970 Mobile {626} 676-4724 Home: {626} 577-7390 Titus Galama tjg@astro.caltech.edu Work: {626} 395-8495 Mobile {626} 676-4723 Home: {626} 568-3937-The STIS CCD imaging should occur as quickly as possible after activiation. {visits 1-72.}-The UV sepctroscopy {Visits UW and UV} should begin 2-3 days after activation.-The STIS UV imaging should occur approximately {A0, C0, E0, G0, I0, K0, M0, O0, Q0} 1 week after activation. and goes with The WFPC2 imaging {A1-B0, C1-D0, E1-F0, G1-H0, I1-J0, K1-L0, M1-N0, O1-P0, Q1-R0} should start 15-20 daysafter activation depending on redshfit.

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