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Automated rapid follow-up of swift Gamma-ray burst alerts at 15 GHz with the AMI large array

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 428:4 (2013) 3114-3120

Authors:

TD Staley, DJ Titterington, RP Fender, JD Swinbank, AJ van der Horst, A Rowlinson, AMM Scaife, KJB Grainge, GG Pooley

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We present 15-GHz follow-up radio observations of 11 Swift gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources, obtained with theArcminute Microkelvin Imager LargeArray (AMI-LA). The initial follow-up observation for each sourcewas made in a fully automated fashion; as a result four observations were initiated within 5 min of the GRB alert time stamp. These observations provide the first millijansky-level constraints on prolonged radio emission from GRBs within the first hour post-burst. While no radio emission within the first six hours after the GRB is detected in this preliminary analysis, radio afterglow is detected from one of the GRBs (GRB 120326A) on a time-scale of days. The observations were made as part of an ongoing programme to use AMI-LA as a systematic follow-up tool for transients at radio frequencies. In addition to the preliminary results, we explain how we have created an easily extensible automated follow-up system, describing new software tools developed for astronomical transient alert distribution, automatic requesting of target-of-opportunity observations and robotic control of the observatory. © 2012 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Supernova 2012ec: Identification of the progenitor and early monitoring with PESSTO

(2013)

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JR Maund, M Fraser, SJ Smartt, MT Botticella, C Barbarino, M Childress, A Gal-Yam, C Inserra, G Pignata, D Reichart, B Schmidt, J Sollerman, F Taddia, L Tomasella, S Valenti, O Yaron
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THE HOST GALAXY OF THE SUPER-LUMINOUS SN 2010gx AND LIMITS ON EXPLOSIVE 56Ni PRODUCTION

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 763:2 (2013) l28

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Ting-Wan Chen, Stephen J Smartt, Fabio Bresolin, Andrea Pastorello, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Rubina Kotak, Matt McCrum, Morgan Fraser, Stefano Valenti
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The Herschel★ view of the environment of the radio galaxy 4C+41.17 at z = 3.8

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 428:4 (2013) 3206-3219

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D Wylezalek, J Vernet, C De Breuck, D Stern, A Galametz, N Seymour, M Jarvis, P Barthel, G Drouart, TR Greve, M Haas, N Hatch, R Ivison, M Lehnert, K Meisenheimer, G Miley, N Nesvadba, HJA Röttgering, JA Stevens
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PS1-10afx at z=1.388: Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of a New Type of Superluminous Supernova

(2013)

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Ryan Chornock, E Berger, A Rest, D Milisavljevic, R Lunnan, RJ Foley, AM Soderberg, SJ Smartt, AJ Burgasser, P Challis, L Chomiuk, I Czekala, M Drout, W Fong, ME Huber, RP Kirshner, C Leibler, B McLeod, GH Marion, G Narayan, AG Riess, KC Roth, NE Sanders, D Scolnic, K Smith, CW Stubbs, JL Tonry, S Valenti, WS Burgett, KC Chambers, KW Hodapp, N Kaiser, R-P Kudritzki, EA Magnier, PA Price
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