LOTIS: A Search for Simultaneous Optical Counterparts of Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998baas...30..762w&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting, 191, #126.06

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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LOTIS (Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System) is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) optical counterpart search experiment located near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The LOTIS telescope consists of a 2 x 2 array of cameras mounted on a rapidly slewing mount. The system is fully automated and linked to the GRB Coordinates Network (GCN). Imaging of an initial GRB error box begins ~ 6--15 s after the start of a burst. LOTIS can detect all objects brighter than V ~ 11 (10 s integration) within a total field-of-view of 17.4(deg) x 17.4(deg) . Since the beginning of routine operations in October 1996, LOTIS has responded to over 35 GCN triggers. We will report on the results from the first year of LOTIS operations with an emphasis on the photometric analysis of the observations.

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