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Status of the ROTSE‐III telescope network |
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| Authors: | S A Yost F Aharonian C W Akerlof M C B Ashley S Barthelmy N Gehrels E Gü T Güver D Horns Ü Kzlolu H A Krimm T A McKay M zel A Phillips R M Quimby G Rowell W Rujopakarn E S Rykoff B E Schaefer D A Smith H F Swan W T Vestrand J C Wheeler J Wren F Yuan |
| Abstract: | ROTSE‐III is a homogeneous worldwide array of 4 robotic telescopes. They were designed to provide optical observations of γ ‐ray burst (GRB) afterglows as close as possible to the start of γ ‐ray emission. ROTSE‐III is fulfilling its potential for GRB science, and provides optical observations for a variety of astrophysical sources in the interim between GRB events. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) |
| Keywords: | gamma rays: bursts instrumentation: photometric instrumentation: photometry telescopes |