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Search for GRB related prompt optical emission and other fast varying objects with “Pi of the Sky” detector

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Experiment “Pi of the Sky” is designed to search for prompt optical emission from GRB sources. 32 CCD cameras covering 2 steradians will monitor the sky continuously. The data will be analysed on-line in search for optical flashes. The prototype with 2 cameras operated at Las Campanas (Chile) since 2004 has recognised several outbursts of flaring stars and has given limits for a few GRB.

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  1. Center for Theoretical Physics PAS, Al. Lotników 32/46, 00-668, Warsaw, Poland

    K. Małek & L. Mankiewicz

  2. Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Hoża 69, 00-681, Warsaw, Poland

    J. Mrowca-Ciułacz, K. Nawrocki, P. Sitek, M. Sokołowski & G. Wrochna

  3. Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

    M. Ćwiok, W. Dominik, L. W. Piotrowski & A. F. Żarnecki

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Ćwiok, M., Dominik, W., Małek, K. et al. Search for GRB related prompt optical emission and other fast varying objects with “Pi of the Sky” detector. Astrophys Space Sci 309, 531–535 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-007-9422-y

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