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Gamma Ray Burst Lensing Limits on Cosmological Dark Matter Robert J. Nemiroff (Michigan Tech) Primary Collaborators: Jay P. Norris (NASA), Jerry T. Bonnell (USRA), Gabriela Marani (GMU) Gamma Ray Burst Lensing Limits on Cosmological Dark Matter Overview of: Gamma Ray Bursts Gravitational Lensing Cosmological Dark Matter Gamma Ray Burst Lensing Limits on Cosmological Dark Matter Searches, Present Limits Future Missions Swift, GLAST, theoretical usefulness Gamma Ray Bursts Intense flashes of gamma rays Last from milliseconds to minutes Location unpredictable: occur all over the sky Discovered by accident in 1960s Seen now by satellites across Solar System BATSE on CGRO (1991-2000) saw most, faintest Distance “Great Debate” at Smithsonian in 1995. GRBs now known to occur at cosmological distances Optical Transients (OTs) and redshifts first recorded in 1997 Gamma Ray BurstsSky Map (BATSE, final) Gamma Ray Bursts A GRB 000301C Symphony Telescopic instruments in Earth and space are still tracking a tremendous explosion that occurred across the universe. A nearly unprecedented symphony of international observations began abruptly on March 1 when Earth-orbiting RXTE, Sun-orbiting Ulysses, and asteroid-orbiting NEAR all detected a 10-second burst of high-frequency gamma radiation. Within 48 hours astronomers using the 2.5-meter Nordic Optical Telescope chimed in with the observation of a middle-frequency optical counterpart that was soon confirmed with the 3.5-meter Calar Alto Telescope in Spain. By the next day the explosion was picked up in low-frequency radio waves by the by the European IRAM 30-meter dish in Spain, and then by the VLA telescopes in the US. The Japanese 8-meter Subaru Telescope interrupted a maiden engineering test to trumpet in infrared observations. Major telescopes across the globe soon began playing along as GRB 000301C came into view, detailing unusual behavior. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the above image and was the first to obtain an a