The Quick Look Analysis

The SOC team of duty scientists is in charge of looking for transient events, like GRBs and SGRs, within the raw GRBM and WFC data once per orbit; this activity, because of the key importance of a fast reaction when possible, is ensured 24 h every day (except for a limited period of time occurred during the mission).

Actually, when a burst is detected and localized by both GRBM and one of the WFCs, immediately an estimate of the burst direction is delivered to the astronomical community (with a typical position error radius of some arcminute within a few hours after the burst), in order to allow the detections of afterglows in many different wavelengths. Then, the possibility of a fast pointing with the NFIs is considered: when feasible within $\sim$ 24 h, the TOO procedure starts, making it possible to observe a likely X-ray afterglow, as happened in the majority of rapidly re-pointed GRBs.

In this context, the importance of the link between the SOC team performing the QLA and the automatic GRB alert procedure, based on a refined GRB search algorithm continuously working on the GRBM raw data developed by the author, stands out clearly.