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A Coordinated Radio Afterglow Program

D. A. Frail, S. R. Kulkarni, M. H. Wieringa, G. B. Taylor, G. H. Moriarty-Schieven, D. S. Shepherd, R. M. Wark, R. Subrahmanyan, D. McConnell, S. J. Cunningham

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9912171

Abstract

We describe a ground-based effort to find and study afterglows at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths. We have observed all well-localized gamma-ray bursts in the Northern and Southern sky since BeppoSAX first started providing rapid positions in early 1997. Of the 23 GRBs for which X-ray afterglows have been detected, 10 have optical afterglows and 9 have radio afterglows. A growing number of GRBs have both X-ray and radio afterglows but lack a corresponding optical afterglow.

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