Triggers:GRBs
From Gaia Science Alerts Working Group
Very short-lived optical transients associated with enormous gamma-ray outbursts. A catalogue of GRBs is available here.
- time-scales from seconds to minutes
- in maximum can reach up to few mag, but the whole range observed
- host galaxy can be visible
from Wozniak et al. 2006
Detecting GRBs with Gaia
Only about 1% of GRBs is detectable by Gaia. The main feature visible in the data is steady and rapid decline over AF CCDs. Time sampling at AF CCDs level is 4.4s per CCD. If we also demand the transient to be visible in the second FOV (after 105 min), the efficiency drops dramatically.
