Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector

"A photograph of the GROND instrument"
GROND mounted on the MPG/ESO telescope (a dark blue cylinder at the lower left)

The Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (GROND) is an imaging instrument used to investigate Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows and for doing follow-up observations on exoplanets using transit photometry.[1][2][3] It is operated at the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the southern part of the Atacama desert, about 600 kilometres north of Santiago de Chile and at an altitude of 2,400 metres.

Discoveries

See also

References

  1. ↑ Snellen, I. A. G.; Koppenhoefer, J. (2008). "OGLE2-TR-L9b: an exoplanet transiting a rapidly rotating F3 star" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200810917.
  2. ↑ http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2012/03/aa18336-11/aa18336-11.html
  3. ↑ "GROND Takes Off" (Press release). European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO). 2007-07-06. Archived from the original on 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
  4. ↑ "NASA's Swift Catches Farthest Ever Gamma-Ray Burst" (Press release). NASA. 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
  5. ↑ Greiner, Jochen; et al. (2008-10-13). "GRB 080913 at redshift 6.7". arXiv:0810.2314 Freely accessible.
  6. ↑ "NASA's Fermi Telescope Sees Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast Yet" (Press release). NASA. 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
  7. ↑ Greiner, Jochen; et al. (2009-02-04). "The redshift and afterglow of the extremely energetic gamma-ray burst GRB 080916C". arXiv:0902.0761 Freely accessible.


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