Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aps..apr..r802l&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint April Meeting, April 18-21, 1998 Columbus, Ohio, abstract #R8.02
Physics
Scientific paper
The ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration will use two independent detector systems to search for gamma-ray burst optical counterparts immediately following a trigger signal from satellite instruments such as BATSE. The first observations with these detectors will be discussed. ROTSE-I is a four-fold array of telephoto lenses imaging to large format, cooled CCDs. The angular coverage is 16.4^circ × 16.4^circ with a limiting magnitude of mv ~= 15 for a 5-second exposure. This system is in automated operation at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The second system, ROTSE-II, consists of two 0.45 m aperture telescopes with f ratios of 1.9, a 1.9^circ × 1.9^circ field of view, an expected limiting magnitude of mv ~= 18 for a 10-second exposure and mv ~= 20 with longer exposures. By scanning around the most probable burst location, a 16^circ × 16^circ error box can be searched in 16 minutes. Delivery of the first ROTSE-II telescope to LANL is scheduled for January, 1998.
Akerlof Carl
Bloch Jeff
Casperson Don
Gisler Galen
Kehoe Robert
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