伽马射线暴的快速光学观测
天体物理学
2009-10-31 v1
摘要
机器人光学瞬变搜索实验(ROTSE)旨在测量伽马射线暴(GRB)的同时及早期余辉光学发射。对六个定位误差为1平方度或更小的GRB进行光学对应体搜索，未发现任何探测。最早的极限灵敏度是在伽马射线上升后10.85秒（5秒曝光）达到m(ROTSE) > 13.1，最佳极限是在62分钟（897秒曝光）达到m(ROTSE) > 16.0。这些是在爆发后第一小时内对GRB光学对应体亮度所获得的最严格限制。考虑这些爆发以及GRB990123的伽马射线注量和峰值流量表明，光学流量与伽马射线发射之间不存在强的正相关。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0001438,
title = {Prompt Optical Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts},
author = {Carl Akerlof and Richard Balsano and Scott Barthelmy and Jeff Bloch and Paul Butterworth and Don Casperson and Tom Cline and Sandra Fletcher and Fillippo Frontera and Galen Gisler and John Heise and Jack Hills and Kevin Hurley and Robert Kehoe and Brian Lee and Stuart Marshall and Tim McKay and Andrew Pawl and Luigi Piro and John Szymanski and Jim Wren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0001438},
year = {2009}
}
备注
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters