Gamma-ray Burst Positions from the ASM on RXTE

Abstract

The RXTE/ASM has detected and positioned 14 confirmed GRB bursts (at this writing, Jan. 1999) including six whose positions were comunicated to the community 2 to 32 hours after the burst. Two of these latter bursts led to measurements of optical red shifts but one, despite an easily detected x-ray afterglow, produced no detectable optical or radio afterglow.

arXiv comment2 pages, 1 Figure, A&A format, accepted to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era", Rome, 3-6 Nov, 1998