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Early Results from HETE-2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

N. Kawai
Affiliation:
RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
A. Yoshida
Affiliation:
RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
T. Tamagawa
Affiliation:
RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
M. Matsuoka
Affiliation:
National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan
Y. Shirasaki
Affiliation:
National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan
G. Ricker
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
G. Crew
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
J.P. Doty
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
A. Levine
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
R. Vanderspek
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
J. Villasenor
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
G. Monnelly
Affiliation:
MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, USA
J.-L. Atteia
Affiliation:
Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France
G. Vedrenne
Affiliation:
Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France
J.-F. Olive
Affiliation:
Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France
M. Boer
Affiliation:
Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France
E.E. Fenimore
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
M. Galassi
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
J.-L. Issler
Affiliation:
Centre Nationale d’Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France
C. Colongo
Affiliation:
Sup ’Aero, Toulouse, France
K. Hurley
Affiliation:
UC-Berkeley, USA
J.G. Jernigan
Affiliation:
UC-Berkeley, USA
D.Q. Lamb
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, USA
C. Graziani
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, USA
G. Pizzichini
Affiliation:
TESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy
S. Woosley
Affiliation:
UC-Santa Cruz, USA
M. Yamauchi
Affiliation:
Miyazaki University, Japan
T. Cline
Affiliation:
NASA GSFC, USA

Abstract

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The High Energy Transient Explorer 2 is a small scientific satellite designed to detect and localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The coordinates of GRBs detected by HETE-2 will be distributed to interested ground-based observers within seconds of burst detection, thereby allowing detailed observations of the initial phases of GRBs. HETE-2 was launched successfully on October 9, 2000. The GRB positions will start to be delivered after a few months of the complete testing and calibration of the spacecraft system and the science instruments.

Type
IV. Transient Events
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001

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