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A Coordinated Radio Afterglow Program

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We describe a ground-based effort to find and study afterglows at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths. We have observed all well-localized gamma-ray bursts in the Northern and Southern sky since BeppoSAX first started providing rapid positions in early 1997. Of the 23 GRBs for which X-ray afterglows have been detected, 10 have optical afterglows and 9 have radio afterglows. A growing number of GRBs have both X-ray and radio afterglows but lack a corresponding optical afterglow.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912171,
  title  = {A Coordinated Radio Afterglow Program},
  author = {D. A. Frail and S. R. Kulkarni and M. H. Wieringa and G. B. Taylor and G. H. Moriarty-Schieven and D. S. Shepherd and R. M. Wark and R. Subrahmanyan and D. McConnell and S. J. Cunningham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912171},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear in Proc. of the 5th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, 5 pages, LaTeX