Ground based γ-ray burst follow-up efforts: The first three years of the BATSE/COMPTEL/NMSU γ-ray burst rapid response network

Details Ground based γ-ray burst follow-up efforts: The first three years of the BATSE/COMPTEL/NMSU γ-ray burst rapid response network Ground based γ-ray burst follow-up efforts: The first three years of the BATSE/COMPTEL/NMSU γ-ray burst rapid response network

Aug 1996

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Gamma-ray bursts: 3rd Huntsville symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 384, pp. 680-684 (1996).

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X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Gamma-Ray, Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts

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The BATSE/COMPTEL/NMSU Rapid Response Network (BCN network) was formed in 1993 to provide rapid follow-up of well localized γ-ray bursts imaged by the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. To date, about twenty burst fields have been imaged. COMPTEL localizations were available for about half of these GRBs. BATSE/BACODINE error boxes were used for the remaining bursts. The principle contributor to the optical follow-up effort has been the U.S. Air Force GEODSS system. This network consists of three sites located at Socorro, NM, Maui, HI, and Deigo Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Each site possesses two or three 40 inch Schmidt-like telescopes that can reach 17th magnitude in less than 1 second of exposure time. The remaining BCN network consists of ~22 professional observatories located around the world spanning both northern and southern hemispheres. It has deeply imaged recent GRB error boxes at both radio and optical wavelengths within 0.03 days of the detection of a GRB. No GRB counterparts have been identified.

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