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Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 138, Number 3, September 1999
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era Contents Rome, November 3-6, 1998
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Page(s) | 557 - 558 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999350 | |
Published online | 15 September 1999 |
Precise GRB source locations from the renewed interplanetary network
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NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, U.S.A.
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UCB-SSL, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
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APL, Laurel, MD 20723, U.S.A.
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Ioffe PTI, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia, U.S.A.
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NASA-MSFC, Huntsville, AL 35812, U.S.A.
Send offprint request to: T.L. Cline
Received:
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December
1998
Accepted:
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February
1999
A new interplanetary network (IPN) is made possible by the modification of the NEAR mission, now at 2 AU distance. With Ulysses and the near-Earth GRB monitors, this fully long-baseline network will produce GRB localizations at a rate of about one per week, with accuracies varying from several to tens of arc minutes. Given the delays inherent in the collection of deep space data, high-precision alerts with delays under one day should be possible at a rate of one to several per month. An automatic analysis system is being developed to optimize the process.
Key words: gamma-rays: bursts / instrumentation: miscellaneous
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 1999