Advances in Astronomy (Jan 2010)

A Path to the Stars: The Evolution of the Species

  • Fabrizio Vitali,
  • Guido Chincarini,
  • Mario Zannoni,
  • Stefano Covino,
  • Emilio Molinari,
  • Stefano Benetti,
  • Carlotta Bonoli,
  • Favio Bortoletto,
  • Enrico Cascone,
  • Rosario Cosentino,
  • Francesco D'Alessio,
  • Paolo D'Avanzo,
  • Vincenzo De Caprio,
  • Massimo Della Valle,
  • Alberto Fernandez-Soto,
  • Dino Fugazza,
  • Enrico Giro,
  • Demetrio Magrin,
  • Giuseppe Malaspina,
  • Lech Mankiewicz,
  • Raffaella Margutti,
  • Ruben Mazzoleni,
  • Luciano Nicastro,
  • Alberto Riva,
  • Marco Riva,
  • Ruben Salvaterra,
  • Paolo Spanò,
  • Monica Sperandio,
  • Mauro Stefanon,
  • Gino Tosti,
  • Vincenzo Testa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/187269
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2010

Abstract

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During the last years, a number of telescopes have been dedicated to the followup of the GRBs. But after the Swift launch, the average observed intensity of the GRBs showed to be lower than thought before. Our experience with the robotic 60 cm REM telescope confirmed this evidence, with a large number of lost GRBs. Then, we proposed to study the feasibility of a 4 m fast pointing class telescope, equipped with a multichannel imagers, from Visible to Near Infrared. In this paper, we present the main result of the feasibility study we performed so far.