VOEvent and GRBs

[Bob Denny]

Josh --

Wow! I had no idea! Thanks a TON for pointing that out! I can't wait to meet you
 next week. The conference should be interesting.

FYI the software they are using is my (commercial) dispatch scheduling system,
and its new VOEvent receiver, with my observing engine behind that. Their
VOEvent feed is coming from the eStar broker run by Alasdair Allan at Exeter.

Their observatory has been quite productive of high quality photometry for
several years. They were among my first customers for the dispatch scheduler.

Thanks again... see you next week!

  -- Bob

You said:
> All:
> 
> Arne Henden and collaborators have put out two GCN circulars recently  
> noting that they are now triggering their 35cm facility directly off  
> of VOEvent messages:
> 
>    http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/9220.gcn3
>    http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/9211.gcn3
> 
> As far as I can see, this is the first explicit mention of direct  
> VOEvent triggering on GRBs. Yeah, VOEvent.
> 
> Josh
> 
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