The GRB coordinates network (GCN): A status report
作者:
S. D. Barthelmy,
P. Butterworth,
T. L. Cline,
N. Gehrels,
F. Marshall,
T. Takeshima,
V. Connaughton,
R. M. Kippen,
C. Kouveliotou,
C. R. Robinson,
期刊:
AIP Conference Proceedings
(AIP Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 428,
issue 1
页码: 99-103
ISSN:0094-243X
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1063/1.55426
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A review of the GRB Coordinates Network (GCN) will be given. The GCN has recently replaced the BATSE Coordinates Distribution Network (BACODINE), maintaining all of BACODINE’s original capabilities and services, but also providing new sources of GRB location information. These are: (1) source locations using the MSFC LOCBURST algorithm, (2) the Rossi-XTE detections (PCA and ASM), (3) the Interplanetary Network (IPN) locations, and (4) CGRO-COMPTEL locations. These new sources of locations are available for distribution in the minutes-to-hours-to-days time delay ranges, and they also have increasingly and significantly reduced error boxes, thus providing a broad range of time delays and error box sizes to fit within the observing capabilities of a broad range of follow-up instruments in the radio, optical, and TeV gamma-ray bands. Extreme-UV transients from ALEXIS are also now distributed. For all sources of location information, all the distribution methods are available (Internet Socket, E-mail, Alpha-numeric and Numeric Pagers, and Phone/modem) and several filters. Sites can choose which sources to receive and what filters to be applied. The GCN web site has been expanded to include a globally inclusive table of locations, light-curves, and fluence information which is automatically updated in real-time. ©1998 American Institute of Physics.
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