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EAS Publications Series
Volume 61, 2013
Gamma-ray Bursts: 15 Years of GRB Afterglows – Progenitors, Environments and Host Galaxies from the Nearby to the Early Universe
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| Page(s) | 611 - 615 | |
| Section | Chapter XIII: Instrumentation & Techniques-III Future Projects | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1361097 | |
| Published online | 22 July 2013 | |
A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.Gorosabel and I.H. Park (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 61 (2013) 611-615
GRBs and Lobster Eye X-Ray Telescopes
1 Astronomical Institute, Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, 251 65
Ondřejov, Czech
Republic
2 Czech Technical University in Prague,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic
3 Czech Technical University in Prague,
Faculty of Nuclear Science, Prague, Czech Republic
4 Rigaku Innovative Techniologies
Europe, Prague,
Czech Republic
A large majority of GRBs exhibit X-ray emission. In addition, a dedicated separate group of GRB, the XRFs, exists which emission dominates in the X-ray spectral range. And the third group of GRB related objects (yet hypothetical) are the group of off-axis observed GRBs (orphan afterglows). These facts justify the consideration of an independent experiment for monitoring, detection and analyses of GRBs and others fast X-ray transients in X-rays. We will present and discuss such experiment based on wide-field X-ray telescopes of Lobster Eye type. We show that the wide field and fine sensitivity of Lobster Eye X-ray All-Sky Monitor make such instruments important tools in study of GRBs.
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