A Search for Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Emission with the Automated Patrol Telescope

Details A Search for Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Emission with the Automated Patrol Telescope A Search for Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Emission with the Automated Patrol Telescope

1997-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711245v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages latex + 3 ps figures. Download a single tar file of ps at http://panisse.lbl.gov/public/bruce/optgrbsearch.tar.gz

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.55461

The Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field (5 X 5 deg.s), modified Schmidt capable of covering large gamma-ray burst (GRB) localization regions to produce a high rate of GRB optical emission measurements. Accounting for factors such as bad weather and incomplete overlap of our field and large GRB localization regions, we estimate our search will image the actual location of 20-41 BATSE GRB sources each year. Long exposures will be made for these images, repeated for several nights, to detect delayed optical transients (OTs) with light curves similar to those already discovered. The APT can also respond within about 20 sec. to GRB alerts from BATSE to search for prompt emission from GRBs. We expect to image more than 2.4 GRBs/yr. during gamma-ray emission. More than 5.1 will be imaged/yr. within about 20 sec. of emission. The APT's 50 cm aperture is much larger than other currently operating experiments used to search for prompt emission, and the APT is the only GRB dedicated telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. Given the current rate of about 25% OTs per X/gamma localization, we expect to produce a sample of about 10 OTs for detailed follow-up observations in 1-2 years of operation.

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