Prompt Optical Detection of GRB 050401 with ROTSE-IIIa

Author affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, 2477 Randall Laboratory, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

² NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771

³ Universities Space Research Association, 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500, Columbia, MD 21044

⁴ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

⁵ Department of Astrophysics and Optics, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

⁶ Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University, Orhanlı-Tuzla, 34958 Istanbul, Turkey

⁷ Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Faculty of Sciences, Istanbul University, 34119 Istanbul, Turkey

⁸ Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

⁹ Department of Physics, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 17020 Çanakkale, Turkey

¹⁰ Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C1400, Austin, TX 78712

¹¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, 202 Nicholson Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

¹² Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group, Mail Stop D436, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545