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The '''Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment''' ('''ROTSE''') is ana multi-telescope experiment designed to observe the optical afterglow of [[gamma-ray bursts]]. The experiment currently consists of four telescopes located in [[Australia]], [[Namibia]], [[Turkey]], and at the [[McDonald Observatory]] near [[Fort Davis, Texas|Fort Davis]], [[Texas]].<ref name=ROTSE>{{cite web|title=ROTSE-III World Distribution|url=http://www.rotse.net/information/world/|accessdate=11 September 2010}}</ref>

The Namibian telescope is located at the [[High Energy Stereoscopic System]] site in the [[Gamsberg Nature Reserve|Gamsberg]] mountains south-west of the capital [[Windhoek]].<ref name=ROTSE/>

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The ROTSE project is a collaboration of astrophysicists from the [[University of Michigan]], [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], the [[University of New South Wales]] (Australia) and the [[Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics]] (Germany).<ref>{{cite web|title=Project Information|url=http://www.rotse.net/information/|accessdate=11 September 2010}}</ref>

The original ROTSE-I had 4 telephoto lenses of 11 &nbsp;cm aperture, covering a 16x16 degree field of view. This detected the first afterglow of a GRB while the burst was still ongoing, but this was the only burst detected by ROTSE or the very similar [[Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System]]. Therefore, ROTSE-II was designed, also featuring a large field of view, but it was never built, since new satellites such as [[HETE-2]] and SWIFT could provide smaller error boxes, making a huge field of view unnecessary. This led to the design of ROTSE-III, a more or less conventional telescope designed for fast slewing and operation at multiple locations around the world.<ref>{{cite arxivjournal |title=The ROTSE-III robotic telescope system

|author=Akerlof, C.W. and Ashley, MCB and Casperson, DE and Epps, HW and Kehoe, RL and Marshall, SL and McGowan, KE and McKay, TA and Phillips, MA and Rykoff, E.S. and others

|eprintarxiv=astro-ph/0210238

|year=2002

|display-authors=etal

|doi=10.1086/345490

|volume=115

|journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

|issue=803

|pages=132–140

|bibcode=2003PASP..115..132A|s2cid=10152025

}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System]]

* [[Super-LOTIS]]

* [[List of astronomical observatories]]

==References==

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