Four Years of Realtime GRB Followup by BOOTES-1B (2005-2008)
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2010-04-09 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
Four years of BOOTES-1B GRB follow-up history are summarised for the first time in the form of a table. The successfully followed events are described case by case. Further, the data are used to show the GRB trigger rate in Spain on a per-year basis, resulting in an estimate of 18 triggers and about 51 h of telescope time per year for real time triggers. These numbers grow to about 22 triggers and 77 h per year if we include also the GRBs observable within 2 hours after the trigger.
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@article{arxiv.1001.2147,
title = {Four Years of Realtime GRB Followup by BOOTES-1B (2005-2008)},
author = {Martin Jelinek and Alberto J. Castro-Tirado and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo and Petr Kubanek and Sergei Guziy and Javier Gorosabel and Ronan Cunniffe and Stanislav Vitek and Rene Hudec and Victor Reglero and Lola Sabau-Graziati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2147},
year = {2010}
}
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16 pages, Accepted into Proceedings of AstroRob Malaga 2009