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Other GRB 990123 links

 

 

 

 

Description of the BATSE instrument, which first reported the GRB 990123 to the community through GCN:

http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/

 

Gamma-ray light curve (a record of the intensity of gamma-rays as a function of time) from BATSE:

http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/notices/7343_z.jpeg

 

Burst location as detected by BATSE, Beppo-SAX, IPN, COMPTEL, and optical instruments:

http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/~kippen/batserbr/grbimage/grb990123.gif

 

Full description of the GCN computer system which provided communication between all the observers and instruments:

http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/gcn_main.html

 

First discovery and announcement of the optical transient by Odewahn, Bloom, and Kulkarni:

http://astro.caltech.edu/~jsb/GRB/grb990123.html

 

Coincident optical images discovered by ROTSE:

http://www.umich.edu/~rotse/gifs/grb990123/990123.gif

 

ROTSE light curve superimposed on gamma-ray light curve:

http://laastro.lanl.gov/rotse/grb990123/grb_990123_rotse_data.html