The STARE project: First light

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Aug 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aipc..384..651k&link_type=abstract

Gamma-ray bursts: 3rd Huntsville symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 384, pp. 651-655 (1996).

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Radio Telescopes And Instrumentation, Heterodyne Receivers, Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Radio, Microwave

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STARE (Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission) is a program designed to detect transient radio emission, including that which might accompany GRBs. STARE differs from other attempts to detect radio counterparts to GRBs in that it covers a large fraction of the sky nearly 24 hours per day. Thus it will be sensitive to radio emission which arrives after, during, or even before the GRB itself. The STARE project as proposed would consist of two phases: I) Total power radiometers at geographically separated locations monitor the sky, allowing quick and easy measurements, but providing low sensitivity and low angular resolution. II) Geographically separated correlating arrays replace the radiometers, providing better sensitivity and higher angular resolution. The first phase is currently underway: one radiometer is operating in Hancock, NH and two more are under construction for other sites. With one site operational, it is impossible to reject local interference, but we can still place upper limits on radio emission from GRBs which occur when the radio record is quiet. When the second and third sites are operational, we will be able to reject local interference events by requiring coincidence among sites, and infer positions by comparing arrival times among sites. Multisite detections will allow meaningful comparisons of our data with the GRB record.

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