First Year Results From LOTIS
Abstract
LOTIS (Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System) is a gamma-ray burst optical counterpart search experiment located near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The system is linked to the GCN (GRB Coordinates Network) real-time coordinate distribution network and can respond to a burst trigger in 6-15 seconds. LOTIS has a total field-of-view of 17.4 deg x 17.4 deg with a completeness sensitivity of m_V ~ 11 for a 10 second integration time. Since operations began in October 1996, LOTIS has responded to over 30 GCN/BATSE GRB triggers. Seven of these triggers are considered good events subject to the criteria of clear weather conditions, < 60 s response time, and > 50% coverage of the final BATSE 3sigma error circle. We discuss results from the first year of LOTIS operations with an emphasis on the observations and analysis of GRB 971006 (BATSE trigger 6414).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9711155,
title = {First Year Results From LOTIS},
author = {G. G. Williams and H. S. Park and E. Ables and D. L. Band and S. D. Barthelmy and R. Bionta and P. S. Butterworth and T. L. Cline and D. H. Ferguson and G. J. Fishman and N. Gehrels and D. H. Hartmann and K. Hurley and C. Kouveliotou and C. A. Meegan and L. Ott and E. Parker and R. Wurtz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9711155},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 5 pages, 2 figures, requires aipproc.sty and epsfig.sty, To appear in the Proceedings of the 4th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium