GRB follow-up with BOOTES Optical Chapter 5: The Swift Era

Journal Article · Fri May 19 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207978· OSTI ID:20798705

Jelinek, Martin; Castro-Tirado, Alberto J; Vitek, Stanislav; Ugarte Postigo, Antonio de ^[1]; Kubanek, Petr ^[2]; Hudec, Rene ^[2]

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1. Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC), Camino Bajo de Huetor 50, 18008 Granada (Spain)
2. Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Fricova 298, Ondrejov (Czech Republic)

BOOTES is a robotic system, whose primary aim is to observe gamma-ray burst prompt emission. Since 1998 BOOTES has provided follow-up observations for more than 70 GRBs; the most important results obtained so far are the detection of an OT in the short/hard GRB 000313 error box, the detection of several optical after-glow for long/soft GRBs and the non-detection of optical emission simultaneous to the high energy emission for several GRBs (both long/soft and short/hard events). During the time of operation we have got triggers from CGRO/BATSE, BeppoSAX, HETE-2, INTEGRAL and Swift. Here we present our early detections of GRB optical emission using the 30 cm Bootes-1B telescope in the R.V and I-bands since the launch of Swift.

• OSTI ID: 20798705
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 836; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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