RECENT GAMMA-RAY BURST OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SROSS-C2 SATELLITE

An experiment to monitor celestial gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in the ener gy domain 20 keV-3 MeV was launched onboard the SROSS-C2 satellite on 4 May 1994. The experiment is currently operational in space and has r ecorded twelve candidate events as on 15 February 1995. Ten of these h ave been confirmed as genuine gamma ray bursts by their near-simultane ous detection by other GRB experiments in interplanetary space. The sc ientific objectives of the GRB payload on SROSS-C2, its in-flight perf ormance and preliminary analysis of some of the candidate events are p resented and discussed in this paper.