PROSPECTS FOR RAPID GAMMA-RAY BURST LOCALIZATION WITH INTEGRAL.

ABSTRACT The SPI and IBIS instruments on INTEGRAL will detect *(This character cannot be converted in ASCII text) 1 GRB/month within their large fields of view. The accuracy of localization with IBIS will be a few arcminutes, hence adequate for follow-up studies at large, ground-based telescopes. We report on the current studies and simulation activities aimed at designing at the ISDC an effective INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) able to automatically distribute the positions of GRBs within a few tens of seconds from the event occurrence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]