IBAS, the Burst Alert System

B. Kretschmar; S. Mereghetti; D. Jennings; A. Pellizzoni; A. Robert; R. Walter; H. Pedersen

doi:10.1051/aas:1999502

All issues

Volume 138 / No 3 (September 1999)

Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 138 3 (1999) 571-572

Abstract

Free Access

Issue		Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. Volume 138, Number 3, September 1999 Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era Contents Rome, November 3-6, 1998


Page(s)		571 - 572
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999502
Published online		15 September 1999

Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 138, 571-572 (1999)

A status report

B. Kretschmar¹, S. Mereghetti², D. Jennings¹, A. Pellizzoni², A. Robert¹^,3, R. Walter¹^,4, T.J.-L. Courvoisier¹^,4 and H. Pedersen⁵

¹ INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, CH–1290 Versoix, Switzerland
² Istituto di Fisica Cosmica "G. Occhialini”, Milano, Italy
³ IFIC, Valencia, Spain
⁴ Geneva Observatory, CH–1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
⁵ CUO, Copenhagen, Denmark

Received: 29 December 1998
Accepted: 21 April 1999

Abstract

We report on the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC) BURST ALERT SYSTEM, designed to automatically distribute GRB positions as measured with INTEGRAL within tens of seconds after the burst.

Key words: gamma-rays: bursts / gamma-rays: observations / instrumentation: miscellaneous