[vsnet-alert 4637] BeppoSAX mail 00/06: Budget cuts in BeppoSAX operations: impact onGRB (fwd)

["Luigi Piro, BeppoSAX Mission Scientist" <piro@ias.rm.cnr.it>]

BeppoSAX mail n. 00/06: Budget cuts in BeppoSAX operations: impact on GRB
and fast follow up observations


Due to budget cuts, BeppoSAX operations have been reduced by ASI as
follows:

as of April 4:

- Mission Planners (previously available 24 hrs a day on call)
  will serve during office hours only (8 hrs a day Mon.-Fri.)
   
- Duty Scientist at the Science Operation Center will not cover the night
  shifts

as of April 15:

- Scientific Instruments will not be operated during Saturday & Sunday
  nights



As a consequence we estimate that:

-  THE NUMBER OF FAST GRB LOCALIZATIONS 
   WILL BE REDUCED BY A FACTOR OF ~2.

- THE NUMBER OF FAST GRB FOLLOW-UP (i.e. AFTERGLOW OBSERVATIONS) 
  WILL BE REDUCED BY A FACTOR OF ~ 3


L. Piro

BeppoSAX Mission Scientist




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 Luigi Piro                        | E-mail:
 Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale     |              piro@ias.rm.cnr.it
 C.N.R.                            | SAX program: saxsci@ias.rm.cnr.it 
 Via Fosso del Cavaliere           | phone: -39-06-4993-4007 
 I-00133 Roma                      | phone BeppoSAX center: -39-06-4079-6393
 Italy                             | fax(CNR)  : -39-06-20660188
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