Bibcode
Castro-Tirado, A. J.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Jelínek, M.; Castillo Carrión, S.; Mateo Sanguino, T. J.; Kubánek, P.; Zerbi, F.; Amado, P.; Cárdenas, C.; Claret, A.; Gorosabel, J.; Martín, S.; Sánchez, M. A.; García Teodoro, P.; Castro Cerón, J. M.; Díaz Verdejo, J.; López Soler, J. M.; Berná Galiano, J. Á.; Casares, J.; Fabregat, J.; Sánchez Fernández, C.; Conconi, P.; Guziy, S.; Vitaly, F.
Bibliographical reference
Il Nuovo Cimento C, vol. 28, Issue 4, p.719
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2005
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2
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Description
“BOOTES-IR" is the extension of the BOOTES experiment, which
operates in Southern Spain since 1998, to the near IR (NIR). The goal is
to follow up the early stage of the gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglow
emission in the NIR, alike BOOTES does already at optical wavelengths.
The scientific case that drives the BOOTES-IR performance is the study
of GRBs with the support of spacecraft like INTEGRAL, SWIFT and GLAST.
Given that the afterglow emission in both, the NIR and the optical, in
the instances immediately following a GRB, is extremely bright (reached
V = 8.9 in one case), it should be possible to detect this prompt
emission at NIR wavelengths too. The combined observations by BOOTES-IR
and BOOTES-1 and BOOTES-2 will allow for real time identification of
trustworthy candidates to have a high redshift (z > 5). It is
expected that, few minutes after a GRB, the IR magnitudes be H ˜
7-10, hence very high quality spectra can be obtained for objects as far
as z = 10 by larger instruments.