Catching the light curve of flaring GRBs: The opportunity offered by scanning telescopes: The opportunity offered by scanning telescopes

Aaron Golden; A. Shearer

doi:10.1051/aas:1999363

Catching the light curve of flaring GRBs: The opportunity offered by scanning telescopes: The opportunity offered by scanning telescopes

Aaron Golden
, A. Shearer

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Abstract

We discuss the project of a wide field optical telescope equipped with panoramic detectors in order to catch an optical transient (OT) simultaneously with Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB). This telescope scans the gamma-ray telescope field of view, and with 1 m mirror for 1 s of integration time would detect OTs up to 16 mag; the probability of covering the GRB location in a field of 20(deg) is 12\%. The detection limit could be raised and the probability of catching OTs could be over 90\% using a system of special telescopes with wide aperture and large collecting area.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Pages (from-to)	589-590
Number of pages	2
Journal	Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
Volume	138
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999363
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1999

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Telescopes, instrumentation: detectors, gamma-rays: bursts

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Beskin, GM and Plokhotnichenko, V and Bartolini, C and Guarnieri, A and Masetti, N and Piccioni, A and Shearer, A and Golden, A and Auriemma, G

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