FBAC Gamma-Ray Burst Team
FBAC members! Contact me if you are interested in joining
the Gamma-Ray Burst Team .
The purpose of GRB Team is to image GRB afterglows and other "high energy"
objects of interest to professionals like Blazars and Polars. We will schedule
observing sessions about once a week on average to observe and do photometry
on Blazars and Polars. If a GRB goes off shortly before or during an observing
session, we will observe the GRB burst location.
Quick Index
Articles and Presentations at our club meetings and in Newsletter articles
Attempted GRBs
GRB-related links
Procedures 1st Draft. What to do when it's not a drill!
Articles and Presentations
- Article in the May 2000 FBAC Newsletter, an overview of the High Energy Astrophysics workshop.
- Presentation at May 2000 FBAC meeting: summary of High Energy Astrophysics workshop in Huntsville, propsal for forming Gamma Ray Burst Extended Team.
- Article in the July 2000 FBAC Newsletter, an account of being "scrambled" on a GRB alert.
Attempted GRB's
- GRB000424b: imaged,(Len
Casady, Joe Dellinger, Bill Dillon, Cynthia Gustava), no optical afterglow.
- GRB000604: imaged,
(Joe Dellinger, Bill Dillon, Cynthia Gustava, Randy Pepper),
no optical afterglow.
- GRB000623: attempted, (Cynthia Gustava, Keith Rivich)
clouds/haze
- GRB000630: attempted (Louis Binder), camera problems.
- GRB000812: attempted (Keith Rivich), clouds.
- GRB000926: imaged,(Joe
Dellinger), optical
imaged!
- GRB001017: imaged,
(Alex Cruz, Bill Dillon), no optical afterglow
(still some processing to do).
- GRB001109: imaged,
(Dennis Borgman, Joe Dellinger, Amelia Goldberg, Keith
Rivich), no optical afterglow detected.
-
GRB001120
: imaged, (Randy Pepper, Cynthia
Gustava, Alex Cruz), no optical afterglow detected.
-
GRB001204
: imaged, (Louis Binder, Joe
Dellinger, Bill Dillon), no optical afterglow detected.
- GRB001212: imaged,
(Alex Cruz, Bill Dillon, Keith Rivich), no optical
afterglow detected.
- GRB010103: imaged,
(Joe Dellinger), no optical afterglow detected.
- GRB010925: imaged, (Joe Dellinger),
HETE-2 "particle event" (i.e., a false alarm).
- GRB011019: imaged, (Louis
Binder, Bill Dillon), no optical afterglow detected.
- GRB020127: imaged, (Joe Dellinger,
Bill Dillon), no optical afterglow detected.
- GRB020331: imaged,
(Joe Dellinger, Bill Dillon), no optical afterglow
detected.
- GRB020813: imaged,(Joe
Dellinger), optical
imaged!
- (update)
- GRB050401: imaged, (Paul
Garossino, Bill Dillon, Joe Dellinger), analysis
pending.
- GRB050408: imaged, (Bill
Dillon, Leonard Ferguson, Joe Dellinger), no
afterglow above 3 sigma.
- GRB050402: imaged, (Bill
Dillon, Max Eastman), no
optical afterglow detected.
GRB-related links
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