The Liverpool Telescope Automatic Pipeline for Real-time GRB Afterglow Detection
Abstract
The 2-m robotic Liverpool Telescope (LT) is ideally suited to the rapid follow-up of unpredictable and transient events such as GRBs. Our GRB follow-up strategy is designed to identify optical/IR counterparts in real time; it involves the automatic triggering of initial observations, on receipt of an alert from Gamma Ray Observatories HETE-2, INTEGRAL and Swift, followed by automated data reduction, analysis, OT identification and subsequent observing mode choice. The lack of human intervention in this process requires robustness at all stages of the procedure. Here we describe the telescope, its instrumentation and GRB pipeline.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0502506,
title = {The Liverpool Telescope Automatic Pipeline for Real-time GRB Afterglow Detection},
author = {A. Gomboc and A. Monfardini and C. Guidorzi and C. G. Mundell and C. J. Mottram and S. N. Fraser and R. J. Smith and I. A. Steele and D. Carter and M. F. Bode and A. M. Newsam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0502506},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Il nuovo cimento (4th Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome, 18-22 October 2004)