Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2006
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GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE SWIFT ERA: Sixteenth Maryland Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 836, pp. 680-
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Mathematical Procedures And Computer Techniques, Digitization Techniques
Scientific paper
There are around 3 millions of astronomical archival plates in the world, representing a very unique and extended data base for various astrophysical projects. Typically each sky position is covered by thousands of plates including those going deep to magnitude 20. The data mining in this database was however very limited so far until the recent wide digitization and evaluation of the plates by powerful (one plate can represent up to 1 GB of data) computers using novel software. We discuss the preferences of use of this type of data in GRB astrophysics such as searches for optical orphans of GRBs. These searches require long-time, wide-field and deep optical coverage and this can indeed be provided by some of plate archives. Some examples of results obtained with archival plates are presented and discussed.
Hudec Lukas
Hudec Rene
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