Bonn 2001 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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T: Teilchenphysik
T 101: Kosmische Strahlung 1
T 101.4: Vortrag
Montag, 26. März 2001, 17:00–17:15, HS I
The ROTSE telescope at the H.E.S.S. site in Namibia — •Dieter Horns1, F.A. Aharonian1, C. Akerlof2, M. Ashley3, R. Balsano4, J. Bloch4, D. Casperson4, S. Fletcher4, G. Gisler4, J. Hills4, Dieter Horns1, R. Kehoe2, T. McKay2, W. Priedhorsky4, S. Marshall5, E. Rykoff2, D. Smith2, J. Szymanski4, T. Vestrand5, H. Völk1, and J. Wren4 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, D-69117 Heidelberg — 2Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 — 3University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 — 4Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 — 5Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550
The ROTSE telescope (robotic optical transient search experiment) designed to search for optical afterglows of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) succeeded in measuring the optical lightcurve of the gamma ray burst GRB990123 and paved the way for other similar experiments. observatories with more accurate telescope has been designed stand-alone night sky. As a first step towards a global network of identical telescopes surveying the night sky, a ROTSE instrument will be installed on the site of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) air Cerenkov telescopes currently under construction in Namibia. The design of the ROTSE telescope and the cooperation of the optical survey telescope with the low energy threshold Cerenkov telescopes are described. The potential for discovery of a GRB counterpart visible for the H.E.S.S. telescopes is discussed.