Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Jul 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005ncimc..28..719c&link_type=abstract
Il Nuovo Cimento C, vol. 28, Issue 4, p.719
Computer Science
Performance
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Scientific paper
“BOOTES-IR" is the extension of the BOOTES experiment, which operates in Southern Spain since 1998, to the near IR (NIR). The goal is to follow up the early stage of the gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission in the NIR, alike BOOTES does already at optical wavelengths. The scientific case that drives the BOOTES-IR performance is the study of GRBs with the support of spacecraft like INTEGRAL, SWIFT and GLAST. Given that the afterglow emission in both, the NIR and the optical, in the instances immediately following a GRB, is extremely bright (reached V = 8.9 in one case), it should be possible to detect this prompt emission at NIR wavelengths too. The combined observations by BOOTES-IR and BOOTES-1 and BOOTES-2 will allow for real time identification of trustworthy candidates to have a high redshift (z > 5). It is expected that, few minutes after a GRB, the IR magnitudes be H ˜ 7-10, hence very high quality spectra can be obtained for objects as far as z = 10 by larger instruments.
Amado Pedro
Berná Galiano J. A.
Cardenas C.
Casares Jorge
Castillo Carrión S.
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