Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21347601v&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #476.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.441
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Thinking Telescopes/RAPTOR (RAPid Telescopes for Optical Response) system is an autonomous network of robotic telescopes that is capable of finding and making follow-up observations of fast optical transients that have durations shorter than a minute. The network is composed of telescope arrays that persistently monitor the sky and more powerful rapid response telescopes that conduct real-time follow-up observations. We present optical observations of the gamma-ray burst location collected in the minutes before, during, and after the gamma-ray emitting interval. In particular, we discuss simultaneous multi-color observations of the prompt and early afterglow emission collected with the new RAPTOR-T telescope array. RAPTOR-T(echnicolor) is an array of four co-aligned 0.4-m telescopes_each with a different clear/VRI filter_that are carried on a rapidly slewing mount that is capable of slewing and beginning observations anywhere in the visible hemisphere in less than 10 seconds. First results from a new RAPTOR wide-field monitoring array that is capable of simultaneously observing 1,000 square-degrees to a depth of R 16th magnitude in 30 seconds and covering the full sky above 35 degrees elevation every 10 minutes will also be presented.
Davis Heath
Norman Benjamin
Panaitescu Alin
Vestrand Thomas W.
Wozniak Prezemyslaw R.
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