Instruments and Techniques

Oral

I-1
N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, L. Barbier, T. Cline, A. Parsons, J. Tueller (NASA/GSFC), S. Barthelmy, D. Palmer (USRA/GSFC), J. Krizmanic (NRC/GSFC), E. Fenimore (LANL), G. Fishman (NASA/MSFC), C. Kouveliotou (USRA/MSFC), K. Hurley (UCB), W. Paciesas (UAH), J. van Paradijs (UAH & U Amsterdam), S. Woosley (UCSC), M. Leventhal (UMd), D. McCammon, W. Sanders (U Wisc.) and B. Schaefer (Yale)

Burst ArcSecond Imaging & Spectroscopy (BASIS): A New GRB Instrument Concept

I-2
Hye-Sook Park,Elden Ables, Richard Bionta, Linda Ott, Eric Parker (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Carl Akerlof, Brian Lee (University of Michigan) Scott Barthelmy, Thomas Cline, Neil Gehrels (NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center) Gerald Fishman, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Charles Meegan (NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center) Donald Ferguson (EarthWatch Inc.)

GROCSE II: A Real-time Search for Gamma Ray Burst Optical Counterparts

I-3
W.N. Johnson, C.D. Dermer, J.E. Grove, P.L. Hertz, R.L. Kinzer, R.A. Kroeger, J.D. Kurfess, M. Lovellette, M.S. Strickman, K.S. Wood (NRL), S.E. Inderhees, B.F. Phlips (USRA), D. Hartmann, M.D. Leising (Clemson Univ.)

Burst Locations with an Arc Second Telescope (BLAST)

I-4
D.J. Forrest (UNH), W.T. Vestrand (UNH), A. Owens (Leicester, UK) M.L. McConnell (UNH), and J.M. Ryan (UNH)

A PATHFINDER MISSION FOR MEASURING GAMMA-RAY BURST DISTANCES

I-5
F. Harrison and T. A. Prince (Caltech), J. E. Grindlay (Harvard University), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), C. J. Hailey (Columbia University), B. D. Ramsey and M.C. Weisskopf (NASA/GSFC), P. Ubertini (IAS, Frascati, Italy), G.K. Skinner (University of Birmingham, UK)

Gamma-Ray Burst Studies With the Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST)

I-6
K. Hurley, J.H. Primbsch, P. Berg (U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory), K. Ziock (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), I. Mitrofanov, D. Anfimov, A. Chernenko, V. Dolidze, V. Loznikov, A. Pozanenko, A. Tonshev, D. Ushakov (Institute for Space Research), T. Cline, R. Baker, D. Stilwell, D. Sheppard (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), N. Madden (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

Burstman: A Portable GRB Detector for Really Long Voyages

I-7
Charles A. Meegan, Gerald J. Fishman, B. Alan Harmon, John M. Horack, Robert B. Wilson (MSFC) Jerome J. Brainerd, Michael S. Briggs, William S. Paciesas, Geoffrey N. Pendleton (UAH) Chryssa Kouveliotou (USRA) Jon Hakkila (Mankato State U.)

EREBUS: An Experiment to Reveal the Burster Sites

I-8
George R. Ricker, Charles C. Counselman, John P. Doty, Peter G. Ford, Alan M. Levine, Manuel Martinez-Sanchez, Roland Vanderspek (MIT), Kevin C. Hurley, J. Garrett Jernigan (UC-Berkeley), Stanford E. Woosley (UC-Santa Cruz), Donald Q. Lamb (University of Chicago), Dieter H.B. Hartmann (Clemson University), Thomas L. Cline, Jay P. Norris (NASA/GSFC), Gerald J. Fishman, John M. Horack (NASA/MSFC)

The Energetic Transient Array (ETA) Gamma-ray Burst Astrometry Mission

I-9
Roland Vanderspek, George R. Ricker, John P. Doty, Saul A. Rappaport, Geoffrey Crew (MIT), Masaru Matsuoka, Nobuyuki Kawai, Atsumasa Yoshida (RIKEN), Edward E. Fenimore, Cheng Ho (LANL), Jean-Luc Atteia, Michel J. Niel, Gilbert Vedrenne (CESR), Graziella Pizzichini (CNR-TESRE), Kevin Hurley (UC-Berkeley), Donald Q. Lamb, Jr. (U. Chicago), Stanford E. Woosley (UCSC)

The High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE): An International Multiwavelength Mission

I-10
S. M. Matz, D. A. Grabelsky, W. R. Purcell, M. P. Ulmer (Northwestern Univ.), G. N. Pendleton (UAH), J. M. Cordes (Cornell), J. P Finley (Purdue) W. A. Wheaton (JPL), R. B. Wilson (MSFC)

ALLEGRO: A New Approach to Gamma-Ray Bursts

Poster

I-P1
J. E. F. Baruch, C. Bennett, M. J. Cox, R. Davis

Prompt acquisition of Gamma Ray Burster Optical Counterparts with the Bradford Robotic Telescope

I-P2
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado (LAEFF-INTA, Madrid)

MARIA: a large area balloon experiment

I-P3
Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Chiko Otani, Atsumasa Yoshida, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, Nobuyuki Kawai, Toru Yamada, Masaru Matsuoka (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Munetaka Ueno, Yousuke Ohno, Takehiko, Wada (Univ. of Tokyo), Junichi Watanabe (National Astronomical Observatory, Japan), Makoto Yamauchi (Miyazaki Univ.), Toshio Murakami (Institute of Space Science and Astronautical Science), and Makoto Yoshikawa (CRL)

TOMBO (Transients Observatory for Microlensing and Bursting Objects) Project

I-P4
A. Yoshida, M. Matsuoka, N. Kawai, F. Tokanai (RIKEN), M. Yamauchi, K. Takagishi, I. Hatsukade (Miyazaki University), E. E. Fenimore, J. J. M. in 't Zand, M. Galassi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Wide Field X-ray Monitor on board the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE)

I-P5
S. Klose (Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany)

Could there be a detectable transient signal from a strong cosmic GRB in the natural Jovian radio emission?

I-P7
S. M. Matz (Northwestern Univ.), C. A. Meegan, G. J. Fishman (MSFC), J. E. Grove, W. N. Johnson, G. H. Share (NRL)

The BATSE/OSSE Rapid Burst Response System

I-P9
I.G.Mitrofanov et al.

Russian-American Precision Gamma-Ray Spectrometer PGS for Mars 96 Mission

I-P10
M. McConnell, D. Forrest, T. Vestrand (Univ. of New Hampshire), M. Finger (Marshall Space Flight Center)

Using BATSE to Measure Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization

I-P11
Jan Soldan, Rene Hudec, (Astronomical Institute Ondrejov), Milos Nemcek (Technical University Ostrava)

Burst Alert Robotic Telescope (BART)

I-P12
W.T. Vestrand, D.J. Forrest, M.L. McConnell, J.M. Ryan, J.G. Stacy, and S. Zhang Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824

A SEARCH FOR POLARIZED EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS USING COMPTEL

I-P13
A. Yoshida (RIKEN), H. Ezawa, Y. Fukazawa, M. Hirayama, E. Idesawa, Y. Ishisaki, N. Iyomoto, T. Kamae, H. Kaneda, H. Kubo, K. Makishima, K. Matsuzaki, T. Mizuno, H. Obayashi, T. Otsuka, Y. Saito, T. Tamura, M. Tashiro, N. Tsuchida (Univ. of Tokyo), J. Kataoka, T. Murakami, H. Ozawa, T. Takahash (ISAS), H. Ikeda, M. Nomachi, K. Tsukada (KEK)

Gamma-Ray Bursts Detections with The Hard X-ray Detector onboard ASTRO-E mission

I-P14
U. D. Desai, M. H. Acuna, T. L. Cline, B. R. Dennis, L. E. Orwig, R. D. Star and J. I. Trombka (NASA/GSFC)

High Spectral Resolution Studies of Gamma Ray Bursts on New Missions

I-P15
Geoffrey B. Crew, Roland Vanderspek, John P. Doty, George R. Ricker (MIT)

Immediate Reports of GRBs in Progress via HETE Secondary Ground Stations

I-P16
Roland Vanderspek, Alia Atlas, Tye M. Brady, Geoffrey B. Crew, John P. Doty, Steven E. Kissel, George R. Ricker, Peter C. Tappan (MIT)\\ Francois Martel, M. Tim Jones (AeroAstro Corporation)

The UV Cameras on the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE)

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