GROND—a 7-Channel Imager

By J. Greiner, W. Bornemann, C. Clemens, M. Deuter, G. Hasinger, M. Honsberg, H. Huber, S. Huber, M. Krauss, T. Krühler and 12 more. 2008

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We describe the construction of GROND, a 7-channel imager, primarily designed for rapid observations of gamma-ray burst afterglows. It allows simultaneous imaging in the Sloan g′ r′ i′ z′ and near-infrared JHK bands. GROND was commissioned at the MPI/ESO 2.2 m telescope at La Silla (Chile) in April 2007, and first results of its performance and calibration are presented.

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• Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (2009, methodology): “On the ground, fast new telescopes such as ROTSE-III (Akerlof et al. 2003), RAPTOR (Woźniak et al. 2006), Pi-of-the-sky (Burd et al. 2005), and REM (Zerbi et al. 2001) are able to point at GRBs within 10− 20 s, and larger facilities like the seven-band GROND (Greiner et al. 2008) respond on 10-minu”
• The nature of "dark" gamma-ray bursts (2010, methodology): “GROND observations of GRBs within the first day are fully automated (see Greiner et al. 2008a for more details).”
• Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets - III. Additional planets and stellar models (2010, methodology): “High-quality follow-up light curves were obtained by Snellen et al. using the newly-commissioned GROND instrument (Greiner et al. 2008) on the 2.2 m telescope at ESO La Silla.”
• Physical Properties of 15 Quasars at z ≳ 6.5 (2017, methodology): “We take advantage of different telescopes and instruments: MPG 2.2m/GROND (Greiner et al. 2008), NTT/EFOSC2 (Buzzoni et al. 1984), NTT/SofI (Moorwood et al. 1998), du Pont/Retrocam8, Calar Alto 3.5m/Omega2000 (Bailer-Jones et al. 2000), Calar Alto 2.2m/CAFOS9.”
• GRB hosts through cosmic time - VLT/X-Shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 γ-ray-burst-selected galaxies at 0.1 (2015, methodology): “If not available elsewhere, dedicated observations were performed with GROND (Greiner et al. 2008) at the 2.2 m MPG telescope on LaSilla, HAWKI (Kissler-Patig et al. 2008), FORS2 (Appenzeller et al. 1998), LRIS at Keck (Oke et al. 1995) or ALFOSC at the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT).”
• The Fermi blazar sequence (2017, background): “Rau et al. (2012), observed a sample of 106 Fermi/LAT blazars with UVOT (onboard Swift) and the Gamma-Ray Optical/Near–infrared Detector (GROND; Greiner et al. 2008).”
• THE PAN-STARRS1 DISTANT z > 5.6 QUASAR SURVEY: MORE THAN 100 QUASARS WITHIN THE FIRST GYR OF THE UNIVERSE (2016, methodology): “We obtained optical and nearinfrared images with the MPG 2.2 m/GROND (Greiner et al. 2008), New Technology Telescope (NTT)/EFOSC2 (Buzzoni et al. 1984), NTT/SofI (Moorwood et al. 1998), the Calar Alto (CAHA) 3.5 m/Omega2000 (Bizenberger et al. 1998; Bailer-Jones et al. 2000), the CAHA 2.2…”
• The 2175 Å Dust Feature in a Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow at Redshift 2.45 (2008, methodology): “The Gamma-Ray Burst Optical and Near Infrared Detector (GROND) is a seven-channel imager primarily designed for fast follow-up observations of GRB afterglows (Greiner et al. 2007b, 2008).”
• THE SWIFT/BAT HARD X-RAY TRANSIENT MONITOR (2006, methodology): “Because the source lies in the direction of the Galactic Center, the actual reddening (or extinction) is unknown and probably large, which is consistent with the GROND and UVOT non-detections.”
• The SEDs and host galaxies of the dustiest GRB afterglows (2011, methodology): “…with visual extinctions AGRBV exceeding unity, we search for the associated hosts with the Gamma-Ray Optical and Near-infrared Detector (GROND, Greiner et al. 2008), as well as the ESO Very Large and New Technology Telescopes (VLT and NTT, respectively) and the Ultra-Violet Optical Telescope…”
• A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up (2014, methodology): “After 13 hours, a trigger was sent to the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (GROND) operating on the 2.2-m MPI/ESO telescope on La Silla in Chile (Greiner et al. 2008).”
• AFTERGLOW OBSERVATIONS OF FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND THE EMERGING CLASS OF HYPER-ENERGETIC EVENTS (2010, background): “McBreen et al. (2010) present optical and NIR observations of three events from this work (GRBs 090323, 090328, and 090902B), taken primarily with the GROND instrument (Greiner et al. 2008).”
• The Cow: Discovery of a Luminous, Hot, and Rapidly Evolving Transient (2018, methodology): “58294.55 8.9 15.6 0.1 uvw2 UVOT 58294.55 8.9 15.4 0.1 uvm2 UVOT 58294.55 8.9 15.41 0.07 uvw1 UVOT 58294.55 8.9 15.44 0.08 Swift-u UVOT 58294.55 8.9 15.59 0.08 Swift-b UVOT 58294.55 8.9 15.57 0.09 Swift-v UVOT 58294.95 9.3 15.57 0.08 u LT 58294.95 9.3 15.90 0.06 g LT 58294.95 9.3 15.97 0.03 r LT 5829”
• THE AFTERGLOW OF GRB 130427A FROM 1 TO 1016 GHz (2013, methodology): “GROND Imaging was acquired with the simultaneous sevencolor Gamma- Ray burst Optical and Near-infrared Detector (GROND; Greiner et al. 2008 ) mounted on the 2.2 m MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.”
• Disk-mediated accretion burst in a high-mass young stellar object (2016, background): “3) grows from (2.9±10.7)×10 4 L (blue data points) to (1.6±0.40.3)×10 5 L (red data points) during the burst (PANIC, GROND, VLT/SINFONI, SOFIA/FORCAST and FIFI-LS data), corresponding to an increase in accretion luminosity (1Lacc) of (1.3±0.40.3)×10 5 L and an energy release of (1.2±0.4)×1046 erg fr”
• A PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT OF z ∼ 9.4 FOR GRB 090429B (2011, background): “In the future, additional dedicated ground-based optical/NIR multiband imagers such as GROND and RATIR (Farah et al. 2010) can be expected to feed further such candidates directly to NIR spectrographs including X-Shooter on the VLT (D’Odorico et al. 2004), FIRE on Magellan (Simcoe et al. 2008), and ”
• GRB 080913 AT REDSHIFT 6.7 (2008, methodology): “Observations GROND, a simultaneous 7-channel imager (Greiner et al. 2008a) mounted at the 2.2 m MPI/ESO telescope at La Silla (Chile), started observing the field at 06:52:57 UT, about 6 min after the GRB.”