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29 March 2024
 
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Strategies for prompt searches for GRB afterglows: the discovery of the GRB 001011 optical/near-infrared counterpart using colour-colour selection
J. Gorosabel ; J.U. Fynbo ; J. Hjorth ; C. Wolf ; M.I. Andersen ; H. Pedersen ; L. Christensen ; B.L. Jensen ; P. Moller ; J. Afonso ; M.A. Treyer ; G. Mallen-Ornelas ; A.J. Castro-Tirado ; A. Fruchter ; J. Greiner ; E. Pian ; P.M. Vreeswijk ; F. Frontera ; L. Kaper ; S. Klose ; C. Kouveliotou ; N. Masetti ; E. Palazzi ; E. Rol ; I. Salamanca ; N. Tanvir ; R.A.M.J. Wijers ; E. van den Heuvel ;
Date 29 Sep 2001
Journal Astron.Astrophys. 384 (2002) 11-23 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011598
Subject astro-ph
AbstractWe report the discovery of the optical and near-infrared counterparts to GRB 001011. The GRB 001011 error box determined by Beppo-SAX was simultaneously imaged in the near-infrared by the 3.58-m New Technology Telescope and in the optical by the 1.54-m Danish Telescope ~8 hr after the gamma-ray event. Here we implement the colour-colour discrimination technique proposed by Rhoads (2001) and extend it using near-IR data as well. We present the results provided by an automatic colour-colour discrimination pipe-line developed to discern the different populations of objects present in the GRB 001011 error box. Our software revealed three candidates based on single-epoch images. Second-epoch observations carried out ~3.2 days after the burst revealed that the most likely candidate had faded, thus identifying it with the counterpart to the GRB. In deep R-band images obtained 7 months after the burst a faint (R=25.38+/-0.25) elongated object, presumably the host galaxy of GRB 001011, was detected at the position of the afterglow. The GRB 001011 afterglow is the first discovered with the assistance of colour-colour diagram techniques. We discuss the advantages of using this method and its application to error boxes determined by future missions.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0110007
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