Session 160. GRBs: Observatories and Observations

Oral, Thursday, January 13, 2005, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific Salon 1

160.01 The Swift-BAT Instrument -- Initial On-Orbit Performance

S.D. Barthelmy (NASA-GSFC), Swift/BAT Instrument Team

160.02 Initial Performance of the Swift XRT

D. N. Burrows (Penn State University), Swift XRT Team

160.03 The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope

P.W.A. Roming, S.D. Hunsberger, C. Gronwall, J.A. Nousek (PSU), A.A. Breeveld, K.O. Mason (MSSL), UVOT PSU Team, UVOT MSSL Team, UVOT SwRI Team

160.04 Gamma-Ray Bursts and X-Ray Flashes: Recent Highlights from the HETE Mission

G. R. Ricker (MIT), HETE Science Team

160.05D Imaging and surveying the Gamma-ray sky with BATSE and INTEGRAL

A. B. Hill (University of Southampton), A. J. Bird (University of Southampton and on behalf of the IBIS/ISGRI Survey Team), E. J. Barlow, A. J. Dean, S. E. Shaw, M. J. Westmore, D. R. Willis (University of Southampton)

160.06 A Public Internal Luminosity Function Database for Gamma-Ray Bursts

K. C. Young, J. Hakkila, T. W. Giblin, S. P. Fuller (College of Charleston)

160.07 Early Afterglows and GRB Jet Composition

B. Zhang (UNLV), Y. Z. Fan (UNLV & PMO, China), S. Kobayashi (PSU)

160.08 Discovery of the Young Optical Afterglow of GRB040924

D. B. Fox (Caltech Astronomy), Caltech-NRAO GRB Collaboration