Session 26. Gamma Ray Bursts

Oral, Monday, January 7, 2002, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom West

26.01 The Swift Gamma Ray Burst MIDEX Mission

N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), Swift Team

26.02 Toward the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

J.S. Bloom (Caltech), Caltech-NRAO-CARA GRB Collaboration

26.03 First observations with the ROTSE-III prototype telescope

C. Akerlof (University of Michigan), M. Ashley (University of New South Wales), D. Casperson, G. Gisler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), R. Kehoe (Michigan State University), S. Marshall (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. McGowan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), T. McKay (University of Michigan), A. Phillips (University of New South Wales), E. Rykoff, D. A. Smith (University of Michigan), W. T. Vestrand, P. Wozniak, J. Wren (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

26.04 Unified GRB Paradigm: Correlation between Afterglow Beaming Fraction and Gamma-ray Spectral Lag

J.P. Norris (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

26.05 The Use of Spectral Evolution for Determining Global Properties in Gamma-Ray Bursts

D Kocevski, EP Liang (Rice University)