z-ph-REM: A photometric redshift code for the REM telescope

Abstract

The REM telescope is being deployed these very days at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, and will be fully operational by the beginning of 2004. It is a very fast-slewing robotized telescope, endowed with optical and near-infrared capabilities, designed with the primary objective of performing rapid follow-up of GRB events. One of the key issues will be the prompt recognition of potentially interesting bursts (those happening at high redshift or peculiarly reddened). Here I present a sketch of z-ph-REM, the photometric redshift code designed for this mission.