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Status and perspectives of Mini-MegaTORTORA wide-field monitoring system with high temporal resolution

  • S. Karpov
  • , G. Beskin
  • , S. Bondar
  • , A. Perkov
  • , E. Ivanov
  • , A. Guarnieri
  • , C. Bartolini
  • , G. Greco
  • , A. Shearer
  • , V. Sasyuk
  • Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Institute for Precise Instrumentation
  • University of Bologna
  • INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
  • Kazan Federal University

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)465-469
Number of pages5
JournalEAS Publications Series
Volume61
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2012 Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, GRB 2012 - Malaga, Spain
Duration: 8 Oct 201212 Oct 2012

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