Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector

"Grond" redirects here. For other topics of the same name, see Grond (disambiguation).
"A photograph of the GROND instrument"
GROND mounted on the MPG/ESO telescope (a dark blue cylinder at the lower left)

The Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (GROND) is an imaging instrument used to investigate Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows and for doing follow-up observations on exoplanets using transit photometry.[1][2][3] It is operated at the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the southern part of the Atacama desert, about 600 kilometres north of Santiago de Chile and at an altitude of 2,400 metres.

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  2. ^ Nikolov, N.; Henning, Th.; Koppenhoefer, J.; Lendl, M.; MacIejewski, G.; Greiner, J. (2012). "WASP-4b transit observations with GROND". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 539: A159. arXiv:1201.5727. Bibcode:2012A&A...539A.159N. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201118336. S2CID 59017585.
  3. ^ "GROND Takes Off" (Press release). European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO). 2007-07-06. Archived from the original on 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2009-02-23.