Citation:
Cool RJ, Eisenstein DJ, Hogg DW, Blanton MR, Schlegel DJ, Brinkmann J, Schneider DP, Vanden Berk DE. SDSS Preburst Observations of Recent Gamma-Ray Burst Fields. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 2006;118 :733-739.
Date Published:
May 1, 2006Abstract:
We present Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry and spectroscopyin the fields of 27 gamma-ray bursts observed by Swift, including burstslocalized by Swift, HETE-2, and INTEGRAL, after 2004 December. Afterthis bulk release, we plan to provide individual releases of similardata shortly after the localization of future bursts falling in the SDSSsurvey area. These data provide a solid basis for the astrometric andphotometric calibration of follow-up afterglow searches and monitoring.Furthermore, the images provided with this release will allow observersto find transient objects up to a magnitude fainter than is possiblewith Digitized Sky Survey images.