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REM Optical Slitless Spectrograph (ROSS): an instrument for prompt low resolution spectroscopy of Gamma Ray Bursts | Eliana Palazzi
; Elena Pian
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7 Sep 2001 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | 1 and 2) ( ITeSRE-CNR, Bologna, Italy, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy | Abstract: | Since the discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), attempts have been made to detect correlated optical transient emission from these objects. In January 1999, the ROTSE I robotic telescope detected a bright optical flash simultaneous with a GRB, thanks to the prompt dissemination to the ground of the high energy event coordinates. To date, that single observation remains unique as no other prompt flashes have been seen for other bursts observed with comparably short response times. This suggests that in general GRB prompt optical emission may be considerably dimmer than observed for the GRB990123 event. To exploit the better angular localization accuracy of the flying (HETE-2) or soon to fly (INTEGRAL, AGILE, SWIFT, GLAST) missions for high energy astrophysics, a new generation of robotic telescopes is being developed. These will have response times as short as a few seconds and will be sensitive to signals as faint as m_v ~ 20, thus increasing the chance of detecting even weak prompt emission. Results from these experiments should provide important new data about the dynamics and local medium composition of GRBs. In this paper we describe one of the new instruments, ROSS, to be mounted on the robotic facility REM, designed to perform low resolution spectroscopy on the prompt optical flares associated with GRBs. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0109126 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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