GAMMA RAY BURSTS

• Entdeckung, Röntgen- und Gamma-Beobachtungen:
• BeppoSAX Beobachtung des Röntgen-Nachleuchtens von GRB971214
• BATSE Beobachtungs-Seite - Himmelskarte - Lichtkurve

• Optische Beobachtungen:
• Apache Point Observatorium mit dem ARC 3.5m-Teleskop, 15./16. Dez.
• MDM Observatorium, 2.4m-Hiltner-Teleskop, 15./16. Dez.
• Kitt Peak, 0.9m-Teleskop, 17. Dez.
  

• IAU Zirkulare:
• IAUC6787 - Entdeckung durch BeppoSAX
• IAUC6789 - Beobachtung durch BATSE, Ulysses und RXTE
• IAUC6791 - Optische Beobachtung, Apache Point Observatorium
• IAUC6793 - Optische Beobachtung, Kitt Peak

• Astronomy Picture of the Day:
• 18. Dezember 1997

• siehe IAU Zirkulare [Ergänzt 8.Sept.]
  6726 / 6727 / 6728 / 6729 / 6730 / 6731 / 6732 / 6733 / 6735

• [GCN] Zusätzliche BATSE Trigger Information zum Trigger 6350: [13. Sept.]
  Comment | IPN/BACODINE Localization | GCN/RXTE Burst Position Notice

• Jochen Greiner [AIP]: Gamma-ray Burst 970828
• K.Stanek [CfA]: Optische Bilder eines Feldes mit GRB970828 (ftp) [12. Sept.]
  

• Very faint x-ray afterglow with RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer)
• BATSE Time profile
• Error regions from RXTE, BATSE, BACODINE, and IPN(BATSE/Ulysses)

• Entdeckung und Röntgenbeobachtung mit BeppoSAX:
• BeppoSAX: Latest News (15 May 1997)
• IAU Circular 6649 / 6656

• Optische Beobachtungen (Mt.Palomar 5m und Keck II):
• IAU Circular 6655 / 6658 / 6660
• CalTech Pressemitteilung (14. Mai 1997): Caltech Astronomers Crack the Puzzle of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
• CalTech: GRB Optical Counterpart Images (Mt.Palomar, 10. Mai)
• Loiano, 1.52m, 10. Mai
• STScI Pressemitteilung (10. Juni 1997): Mysterious fireball from a cataclysmic explosion

• Radio-Beobachtung:
• NRAO Pressemitteilung (15. Mai 1997): "Very Large Array detects radio emission from Gamma-Ray Burst"

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: May 21, 1997 - May 13, 1997

• Astrophysics abstracts (astro-ph):
  astro-ph/9705229 Waxmann: gamma-ray burst after-glow: Confirming the cosmological fireball model
  astro-ph/9706060 Vietri: The afterglow of gamma ray bursts II: the cases of GRB 970228 and GRB 970508
  astro-ph/9706068 Arav&Hogg: What is the redshift of gamma-ray burst 970508?

• Spezielle Seiten:
• Steven Matz [NWU]: GRB970508
• Jochen Greiner [AIP]: Gamma-ray Burst 970508 (mit allen IAU Circularen!)

März 1997:

© STScI

GRB 970228

Erste optische Nachbeobachtung eines Gamma Ray Burst !

• Entdeckung und Röntgenbeobachtung mit BeppoSAX:
• BeppoSAX: Latest News (12-March-1997) - Pressemitteilung 12. März 1997
• BeppoSAX follow-up observations of the region of the Gamma-ray burst GRB 970228

• Optische Beobachtungen:
• NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center (Mar 31, 1997)
• Space Telescope Science Institute
  Pressemitteilung (1. April 1997): Hubble tracks the fading optical counterpart of a Gamma-Ray Burst
  Pressemitteilung (10. Juni 1997): Gamma-Ray Bursts common to normal galaxies ?
  Pressemitteilung (16. September 1997): "Hubble stays on trail of fading Gamma-Ray Burst fireball, results point to extragalactic origin" [19. Sept.]
  HST Data for Gamma Ray Burst 970228 (calibrated, unreduced datasets)
• Esther Hu: Keck II/LRIS-Spektrum: ohne Emissions/Absorptions-Linien

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: June 25, 1997 - April 22, 1997 - April 07, 1997 - March 19, 1997

• Astrophysics abstracts (astro-ph):
  astro-ph/9703133 Katz et al.: Implications of the Visible and X-Ray Counterparts to GRB970228
  astro-ph/9704198 Reichart: Observations and theoretical implications of GRB 970228
  astro-ph/9705128 Hurley et al.: 3rd Interplanetary Network Localization, Time History, Fluence, Peak Flux, and Distance Lower Limit of the February 28, 1997 Gamma-Ray Burst
  astro-ph/9705184 Sahu et al.: The optical counterpart to gamma-ray burst GRB970228 observed using the Hubble Space Telescope
  astro-ph/9706065 Costa et al.: Discovery of the X-Ray Afterglow of the Gamma-Ray Burst of February 28 1997

• Spezielle Seiten:
• Steven Matz [NWU]: GRB970228
• Jochen Greiner [AIP]: Gamma-ray Burst 970228: Score !

• BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Sky Map (Aktualisierung Sonntag morgens)

• BATSE Trigger Information (aktualisiert in Echtzeit) [13. Sept.]
  - ein Service von GCN/BACODINE (= BAtse Coordinates DIstribution NEtwork)

• Aktuelle Datenbank des Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Data Center

  
  

• astro-ph: Gamma-Ray Burst Titel der letzten 12 Monate

• The Paczynski - Lamb Debate in 1995: The Distance Scale to Gamma Ray Bursts

• Gamma-Ray Bursts (© NASA, BATSE)
  
• Gamma Ray Bursts from the Unknown (© APOD November 23, 1996)
  
• A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts (© J.Bonell, NASA, April 17, 1995)
  
• A Major League Puzzle: Exploring the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (© J.M.Horack, NASA, July 25, 1995)
  
• Gamma-Ray Burst Physics (© Peter Meszaros, 1996)

• Research on Celestial Gamma Ray Bursts (Los Alamos)

• Content of the Special Issue: Third Compton Symposium (A&A Supp., Vol. 120, Num. 4, December 1996

• BeppoSAX (1996-....) [ASI]
  • Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM)
  • Wide Field Cameras (WFC)

• RXTE (1995-....) [NASA GSFC] [19. Sept.]
  
  • XTE Target of Opportunity News

• Gamma Ray Observatory:
• BATSE Home Page [NASA MSFC]
• COMPTEL Gamma-Ray Burst Page [UNH]
• OSSE Gamma Ray Burst Time Profiles [NWU]

• ULYSSES (1990-....) [ESA]
  • Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Results
  • The Solar X-Ray/Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Experiment Aboard Ulysses (abstract)
  • Ulysses [HEASARC]

• WIND (1994-...) [NASA GSFC]
  • Transient Gamma Ray Spectrometer (TGRS)

• GRANAT (1989-....) [IKI]
  • GRANAT [HEASARC]

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• SMM - Solar Maximum Mission (1980-1989) [NASA GSFC]
  • SMM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog

• Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1978-1992) [NASA GSFC]

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• HETE - High Energy Transient Experiment (1996, gescheitert) [MIT]

• Mars 96 (1996, gescheitert) [IKI]

• Mars Observer (1992-1993, gescheitert) [NASA GSFC]