Transients in 10 seconds or less: catching Gamma-Ray Bursts in the act with ROTSE

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...209.4802r&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #48.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) signal the violent deaths of massive stars. We see these death throes as a massive flux of gamma-rays lasting just a few tens of seconds. Such bursts are detected by NASA satellites several times a week at random locations on the sky. Optical observations of GRBs requires constant readiness and extremely rapid response. I will talk about why GRBs are so short, and describe the global network of fast, tireless, automated telescopes we have built to chase down GRBs while they happen-the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment. The ROTSE array, with telescopes in remote locations on four continents, catches GRBs early and often, getting to over a third of all GRBs quickly, and imaging them within 7 seconds of their satellite detection.

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