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REM - Rapid Eye Mount. A Fast Slewing Robotized Telescope to Monitor the Prompt Infra-red Afterglow of GRBs

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Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era

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We present REM, a fully robotized fast slewing telescope equipped with a NIR (Z’, J, H, K’) camera dedicated to monitoring of the prompt IR afterglow of GRBs. REM can discover objects at extremely high red-shift and to trigger large telescopes to observe them.

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  1. Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807, Merate (Lc), Italy

    Filippo M. Zerbi, Guido Chincarini, Sergio Campana, Paolo Conconi, Stefano Covino, Gabriele Ghisellini, Davide Lazzati & Emilio Molinari

  2. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Via S.Sofia, 78, I-95123, Catania, Italy

    Marcello Rodonó, Giuseppe Cutispoto, Eugenio Martinetti & Stefano Sardone

  3. Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via di Frascati, 33, I-00044, Rome, Italy

    Angelo Antonelli, Luciano Burderi, Luigi Stella & Fabrizio Vitali

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  1. Filippo M. Zerbi
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Enrico Costa Filippo Frontera Jens Hjorth

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Zerbi, F.M. et al. REM - Rapid Eye Mount. A Fast Slewing Robotized Telescope to Monitor the Prompt Infra-red Afterglow of GRBs. In: Costa, E., Frontera, F., Hjorth, J. (eds) Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10853853_120

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