Crude Limits on Prior and Prompt Optical Emission from GRBs from CONCAMs of the Night Sky Live Global Network

Journal Article · Tue Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2004 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1810835· OSTI ID:20630192

Nemiroff, Robert J; Perez-Ramirez, Dolores; Cordell, Daniel ^[1]

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1. Michigan Technological University, Department of Physics, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931 (United States)

The developing global Night Sky Live network of nighttime fisheye web-cameras (CONtinuous CAMeras or CONCAMs) monitors much of the night sky down to a limiting visual magnitude as faint as 7. Several times now, a CONCAM has imaged the position of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) at trigger time. So far, however, no optical transient has been bright enough to be recorded by a CONCAM. Several example cases are discussed.

• OSTI ID: 20630192
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 727, Issue 1; Conference: Symposium on gamma-ray bursts: 30 years of discovery, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 8-12 Sep 2003; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1810835; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CAMERAS
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
GAMMA DETECTION
MONITORS
PHOTON EMISSION
TRANSIENTS