AQUA (Automated QUick Analysis) is the fast reduction pipeline of the Near Infra-Red (NIR) images obtained with the REM telescope. The main purpose of REM (Rapid Eye Mount) telescope is to follow the early phases of afterglow of the GRBs detected by SWIFT and other Gamma-Ray satellites by collecting images in the H, J and K bands. REM, currently in commissioning phase, has been conceived to host both a slit-less spectrograph (ROSS) covering the 0.45-0.95 microns range and a NIR camera (REMIR) covering the 0.95-2.35 microns range. NIR observations of GRBs early afterglow are of crucial importance for GRBs science, revealing even optical obscured or high redshift events. AQUA will fast process raw images obtained with REMIR, detect the NIR transient and deliver an alert with coordinates, photometry and colors to larger telescopes to allow prompt spectroscopic and polarimetric observations.
AQUA: a very fast automatic reduction pipeline for GRBs afterglow detection
TOSTI, Gino
2004
Abstract
AQUA (Automated QUick Analysis) is the fast reduction pipeline of the Near Infra-Red (NIR) images obtained with the REM telescope. The main purpose of REM (Rapid Eye Mount) telescope is to follow the early phases of afterglow of the GRBs detected by SWIFT and other Gamma-Ray satellites by collecting images in the H, J and K bands. REM, currently in commissioning phase, has been conceived to host both a slit-less spectrograph (ROSS) covering the 0.45-0.95 microns range and a NIR camera (REMIR) covering the 0.95-2.35 microns range. NIR observations of GRBs early afterglow are of crucial importance for GRBs science, revealing even optical obscured or high redshift events. AQUA will fast process raw images obtained with REMIR, detect the NIR transient and deliver an alert with coordinates, photometry and colors to larger telescopes to allow prompt spectroscopic and polarimetric observations.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
