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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2016, Article ID 1928465, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1928465
Research Article

A Decade of GRB Follow-Up by BOOTES in Spain (2003–2013)

Martin Jelínek,1,2 Alberto J. Castro-Tirado,2,3 Ronan Cunniffe,2 Javier Gorosabel,2,4,5 Stanislav Vítek,6 Petr Kubánek,7,8 Antonio de Ugarte Postigo,2 Sergey Guziy,2 Juan C. Tello,2 Petr Páta,6 Rubén Sánchez-Ramírez,2 Samantha Oates,2 Soomin Jeong,2,9 Jan Štrobl,1 Sebastián Castillo-Carrión,10 Tomás Mateo Sanguino,11 Ovidio Rabaza,12 Dolores Pérez-Ramírez,13 Rafael Fernández-Muñoz,14 Benito A. de la Morena Carretero,15 René Hudec,1,6 Víctor Reglero,8 and Lola Sabau-Graziati16

1Astronomický Ústav AV ČR, Ondřejov (ASÚ AV ČR), Ondřejov, Czech Republic
2Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía- (IAA-) CSIC, 18008 Granada, Spain
3Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática (Unidad Asociada al CSIC), Universidad de Málaga, 29010 Málaga, Spain
4Unidad Asociada Grupo Ciencia Planetarias UPV/EHU-IAA/CSIC, Departamento de Física Aplicada I, E.T.S. de Ingeniería, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV)/EHU, Alameda de Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
5Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Alameda de Urquijo 36-5, 48008 Bilbao, Spain
6České Vysoké Učení Technické, Fakulta Elektrotechnická (ČVUT-FEL), Praha, Czech Republic
7Fyzikální ústav AV ČR, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic
8Image Processing Laboratory, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
9Institute for Science and Technology in Space, Natural Science Campus, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
10Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
11Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de Huelva, E.P.S. de La Rábida, Huelva, Spain
12Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
13Universidad de Jaén, Campus las Lagunillas, 23071 Jaén, Spain
14Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora” (IHSM-CSIC), Algarrobo, 29750 Málaga, Spain
15Estación de Sondeos Atmosféricos (ESAt) de El Arenosillo (CEDEA-INTA), Mazagón, Huelva, Spain
16División de Ciencias del Espacio, INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

Received 11 March 2016; Accepted 17 August 2016

Academic Editor: Dean Hines

Copyright © 2016 Martin Jelínek et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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