From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients
Joint Authors
Bartolini, Corrado
Bondar, Sergey
Piccioni, Adalberto
Greco, Giuseppe
Karpov, Sergey
Plokhotnichenko, Vladimir
Guarnieri, Adriano
Shearer, Andrew
Beskin, Grigory
Source
Issue
Vol. 2010, Issue 2010 (31 Dec. 2010), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2010-03-22
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
To study short stochastic optical flares of different objects (GRBs, SNs, etc.) of unknown localizations as well as NEOs it is necessary to monitor large regions of sky with high-time resolution.
We developed a system consisting of widefield camera with field of view of 400–600 sq.deg.
which uses TV-CCD with 0.13 s temporal resolution to record and classify optical transients, and a fast robotic telescope aimed to perform their spectroscopic and photometric investigation just after detection.
Such two-telescope complex, combining wide-field camera TORTORA and robotic telescope REM, operated from May 2006 at La Silla ESO observatory.
Some results of its operation, including first high time resolution study of optical transient accompanying GRB and discovery of its fine time structure, are presented.
Also, prospects for improving the efficiency of such observations are given, and a project of a next generation wide field monitoring system, the MegaTORTORA, is described.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Beskin, Grigory& Bondar, Sergey& Karpov, Sergey& Plokhotnichenko, Vladimir& Guarnieri, Adriano& Bartolini, Corrado…[et al.]. 2010. From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients. Advances in Astronomy،Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-451583
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Beskin, Grigory…[et al.]. From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients. Advances in Astronomy No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-451583
American Medical Association (AMA)
Beskin, Grigory& Bondar, Sergey& Karpov, Sergey& Plokhotnichenko, Vladimir& Guarnieri, Adriano& Bartolini, Corrado…[et al.]. From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients. Advances in Astronomy. 2010. Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-451583
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-451583