PROMPT Observations of the Early-Time Optical Afterglow of GRB 060607A.pdfVIP

a r X i v : 0 7 0 8 .3 4 4 4 v 2 [ a s t r o - p h ] 3 1 A u g 2 0 0 7 Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal PROMPT Observations of the Early-Time Optical Afterglow of GRB 060607A M. Nysewander12, D. E. Reichart1, J. A. Crain1, A. Foster1, J. Haislip1, K. Ivarsen1, A. Lacluyze1, A. Trotter1. ABSTRACT PROMPT (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes) observed the early-time optical afterglow of GRB 060607A and obtained a densely sampled multiwavelength light curve that begins only tens of seconds after the GRB. Located at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observator