Energy input and response from prompt and early optical afterglow emmission in gamma-ray bursts

W.T. Vestrand, J.A. Wren, P.R. Wozniak, R. Aptekar, S. Golentskii, V. Pal'shin, T. Sakamoto, R.R. White, S. Evans, D. Casperson, and E. Fenimore

Nature vol. 442  13 July 2006  pp 172-175  

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Thinking telescopes and the future astronomical meta-network

R.R. White, S.M. Evans, W.T. Vestrand, M.S. Warren, J.A. Wren, and P.R. Wozniak

Astronomische Nachrichten (2006) AN327, No.8

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Astronomical network event and observation notification

R.R. White, A. Allan, S. Barthelmy, et al     Astronomische Nachrichten (2006) AN327, No.8

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RAPTOR Observations of delayed explosive activity in the high-redshift gamma-ray burst GRB 060206

P.R. Wozniak, et al     Astrophysical Journal 642 (2006)  L99-L102

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RAPTOR Observations of the Early Optical Afterglow From GRB 050319.

P.R. Wozniak, et al     Astrophysical Journal 627 (2005) L13-L16

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A Link Between Prompt Optical and Prompt Gamma-Ray Emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts.

W.T. Vestrand, et al     Nature vol. 435  12 May 2005  pp 178-180  

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Unsolved problems in observational astronomy. II. Focus on rapid response - mining the sky with "thinking" telescopes.

W.T. Vestrand, J. Theiler, and P.R. Wozniak      

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RAPTOR: Closed-Loop Monitoring of the Night Sky and the Earliest Optical Detection of GRB 021211.

W.T. Vestrand, et al     Astronomische Nachrichten (2004) AN325, No.6-8  pp. 549-552  

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TALONS - The Telescope Alert Operation Network System: Intelligent Linking of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Telescopes  

R.R. White, et al        SPIE vol 5496  &  astro-ph/0409654           

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Northern Sky Variability Survey: Public Data Release  

P.R. Wozniak, et al     The Astrophysical Journal.  April 2004. vol 127  pp2436-2449

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RAPTOR-scan: Identifying and Tracking Objects through Thousands of Sky Images.  

S. Davidorff and P.R. Wozniak   Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Proceedings. 2003. pp.733-736

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Mining the Sky for Explosive Optical Transients with Both Eyes Open.  

W.T. Vestrand, et al   Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Proceedings. 2003. pp.728-732

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Exploring the First Minute: New Technology for Measuring Color and Polarization Variations in Prompt Optical Emission.  

W.T. Vestrand, et al   Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Proceedings. 2003. pp.719-722

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A System for Photon-Counting Spectrophotometry of Prompt Optical Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts  

W.T. Vestrand, et al        "Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow Astronomy 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission"

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Searching for Optical Transients in Real-Time. The RAPTOR Experiment  

W.T. Vestrand, et al        "Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow Astronomy 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission"

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SkyDOT (Sky Database for Objects in the Time domain) A Virtual Observatory for Variability Studies

at LANL 

P. Wozniak, et al                  SPIE vol 4846

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Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR

K. Borozdin, et al

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A Distributed Control System for Rapid Astronomical Transient Detection.

J. Wren, et al                      SPIE vol 4845 p.156

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The RAPTOR Experiment: A System for Monitoring the Sky in Real Time.

W.T. Vestrand, et al             SPIE vol 4845  p.126

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On the Stability of the ~420 d Periodicity in A0538-66 : Table 1.

K. McGowan, et al.     

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