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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) | 565 - 566 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999354 | |
Published online | 15 September 1999 |
GRB observations with the HETE soft X-ray cameras
1
Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
2
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
Send offprint request to: R. Vanderspek
Received:
21
January
1999
Accepted:
10
March
1999
The High Energy Transient Explorer, scheduled to be launched in
late 1999 or early 2000, will carry a pair of Soft X-ray Cameras (SXC),
capable of
localizing the X-ray counterparts of GRBs with unprecedented precision.
Each SXC consists of a pair of large-format CCDs behind a
1-D coded aperture: the
two SXCs are oriented orthogonal to each other to
permit two-dimensional image reconstruction.
The SXCs on HETE will be able to localize bright X-ray afterglows to
precision within seconds of burst onset.
The coordinates of detected bursts will be distributed immediately to
ground-based observers and to the GCN via the HETE Burst Alert System.
Key words: gamma-ray: bursts / instrumentation
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 1999