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Detecting Gamma-ray bursts:
MPE has built the INTEGRAL-ACS which detects roughly 1 GRB
every two days. ACS light curves of GRBs are used in the IPN network
to triangulate their position.
SPI-ACS GRB Catalogue
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Operating the most recent GRB detector:
Together with MSFC/USA, MPE has built the burst monitor
GBM for the Fermi mission.
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MPE participates in the Swift mission in various ways:
Calibration of the XRT at PANTER, and
developing software for the analysis of BAT data.
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MPE is operating a dedicated 7-channel camera
GROND
for rapid follow-up observations of GRBs with the 2.2m MPI/ESO
telescope in La Silla (Chile).
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An up-to-date list of localized GRBs is maintained at
href="http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~jcg/grbgen.html with a
collection of all detailed observation reports (GCN) and reprints
(astro-ph).
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