VOEvent and GRBs

[Scott Barthelmy]

Josh, Bob:

The Goddard Robotic Telescope (Taka Sakamoto et al)
also uses the VOEvents (GCN via eSTAR)  and DC3 software.
They have made 3 burst follow-up observations (and put out
Circulars, but they did not mention where they got the info from).


I have a couple slides on the VOEvent usage findings.
It's not much -- something we need to rectify.

--scott


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:50:30PM -0700, Bob Denny wrote:
> 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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