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EAS Publications Series
Volume 61, 2013
Gamma-ray Bursts: 15 Years of GRB Afterglows – Progenitors, Environments and Host Galaxies from the Nearby to the Early Universe
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| Page(s) | 465 - 469 | |
| Section | Chapter X: Instrumentation and Techniques-I (Ongoing Projects) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1361075 | |
| Published online | 22 July 2013 | |
A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.Gorosabel and I.H. Park (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 61 (2013) 465-469
Status and perspectives of Mini-MegaTORTORA wide-field monitoring system with high temporal resolution
1 Special Astrophysical Observatory of
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
2 Institute for Precise
Instrumentation, Russia
3 Bologna University,
Italy
4 Astronomical Observatory of
Bologna, INAF,
Italy
5 National University of
Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
6 Kazan Federal
University, Kazan,
Russia
Here we briefly summarize our long period experience of constructing and operating wide-field monitoring cameras with sub-second temporal resolution to look for optical components of GRBs, fast-moving satellites and meteors. General requirements for hardware for such systems are discussed along with algorithms of real-time detection and classification of various kinds of short optical transients. We also give a status report on the next generation, multi-objective and transforming monitoring system, the MegaTORTORA, whose 6-channel (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Spain) and 9-channel prototypes (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Kazan) we are building now at SAO RAS. This system combines a wide field of view with subsecond temporal resolution in monitoring regime, and is able to reconfigure itself, in a fractions of second, to follow-up mode which has better sensitivity and provides us with multi-color and polarimetric information on detected transients simultaneously.
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