Wednesday, November 30, 2011

1111.6904 (Victor Kornilov et al.)

Robotic optical telescopes global network MASTER II. Equipment, structure, algorithms    [PDF]

Victor Kornilov, Vladimir Lipunov, Evgeny Gorbovskoy, Aleksander Belinski, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Natalia Tyurina, Nikolai Shatsky, Anatoly Sankovich, Aleksander Krylov, Pavel Balanutsa, Vadim Chazov, Artem Kuznetsov, Dmitry Zimnuhov, Victor Senik, Andrey Tlatov, Aleksander Parkhomenko, Denis Dormidontov, Vadim Krushinsky, Ivan Zalozhnyh, Aleksander Popov, Sergey Yazev, Nikolai Budnev, Kirill Ivanov, Evgeny Konstantinov, Oleg Gress, Oleg Chvalaev, Vladimir Yurkov, Yury Sergienko, Irina Kudelina
Presented paper describes the basic principles and features of the implementation of a robotic network of optical telescopes MASTER, designed to study the prompt (simultaneous with gamma radiation) optical emission of gamma-ray bursts and to perform the sky survey to detect unknown objects and transient phenomena. With joint efforts of Sternberg astronomical institute, High altitude astronomical station of the Pulkovo observatory, Ural state university, Irkutsk state university, Blagoveshchensk pedagogical university, the robotic telescopes MASTER II near Kislovodsk, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk and Blagoveshchensk were installed and tested. The network spread over the longitudes is greater than 6 hours. A further expansion of the network is considered.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6904

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