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The Swift Mission and the REM TelescopeFollowing a description of the science drive which originated the Swift Mission, this is US NASA MIDEX Mission with the collaboration of Italy and the UK, we will describe the status of the hardware and the observing strategy. The telemetry is carried out via the TDRSS satellite for those communications that need immediate response. The data transfer and the scheduled uploading of routine commands will be done through the ASI Malindi station in Kenia. Both in the US and in Europe a large effort will be done to follow the bursts with the maximum of efficiency and as soon as possible after the alert. We will describe how the ESO VLT telescopes are able to respond to the alert. To address the problematic of the dark bursts and to immediately follow up all of the bursts also in the Near Infrared we designed and built a 60 cm NIR Robotic telescope, REM, to be located on the ESO ground at Cerro La Silla. The instrumentation includes also a low dispersion spectrograph with the capability of multi wavelength optical photometry.
Document ID
20050215061
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Gehrels, N.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Chincarini, G.
Giommi, P.
Mason, K. O.
Nousek, J. A.
Wells, A. A.
White, N. E.
Barthelemy, S. D.
Burrow, D. N.
Hurley, K. C.
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Publication Information
Publication: International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, e-Medicine and Mobile Technologies on the Internet (SSGRR 2003s)
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
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