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Two and a half years of GRB localizations with the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System

Astrophysics 2010-11-11 v1

Abstract

We review the results on Gamma-ray Bursts obtained during the first two and a half years of operations of the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS). In many cases GRB coordinates have been distributed with an unprecedented combination of accuracy (3 arcmin) and speed (20-30 s). The resulting rapid follow-ups at other wavelengths, including sensitive XMM-Newton and Swift observations, have led to several interesting results.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0506198,
  title  = {Two and a half years of GRB localizations with the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System},
  author = {S. Mereghetti and D. Gotz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0506198},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

A shorter version of this paper will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th Workshop "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era", Roma, 2004 October 18-22, eds. L. Piro, L. Amati, S. Covino, and B. Gendre. Il Nuovo Cimento, in press