Prompt Optical Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts

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dc.creatorKehoe, Robert
dc.creatorAkerlof, Carl
dc.creatorBalsano, Richard
dc.creatorBarthelmy, Scott
dc.creatorBloch, Jeff
dc.creatorButterworth, Paul
dc.creatorCasperson, Don
dc.creatorCline, Tom
dc.creatorFletcher, Sandra
dc.creatorFrontera, Fillippo
dc.creatorGisler, Galen
dc.creatorHeise, John
dc.creatorHills, Jack
dc.creatorHurley, Kevin
dc.creatorLee, Brian
dc.creatorMarshall, Stuart
dc.creatorMcKay, Tim
dc.creatorPawl, Andrew
dc.creatorPiro, Luigi
dc.creatorPriedhorsky, Bill
dc.creatorSzymanski, John
dc.creatorWren, Jim
dc.date1999-09-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:33:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:33:15Z
dc.descriptionThe Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) seeks to measure contemporaneous and early afterglow optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The ROTSE-I telescope array has been fully automated and responding to burst alerts from the GRB Coordinates Network since March 1998, taking prompt optical data for 30 bursts in its first year. We will briefly review observations of GRB990123 which revealed the first detection of an optical burst occurring during the gamma-ray emission, reaching 9th magnitude at its peak. In addition, we present here preliminary optical results for seven other gamma-ray bursts. No other optical counterparts were seen in this analysis, and the best limiting sensitivities are m(V) > 13.0 at 14.7 seconds after the gamma-ray rise, and m(V) > 16.4 at 62 minutes. These are the most stringent limits obtained for GRB optical counterpart brightness in the first hour after the burst. This analysis suggests that there is not a strong correlation between optical flux and gamma-ray emission.
dc.descriptionto appear in the Proceedings of the 1999 May Symposium of the Space Telescope Institute. 20 pages, 13 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909219
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909219
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/14766
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titlePrompt Optical Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts
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