Status and Perspectives of the Mini-MegaTORTORA Wide-field Monitoring System with High Temporal Resolution

Authors

  • Sergey Karpov
  • Grigory Beskin
  • Sergey Bondar
  • Alexey Perkov
  • Evgeny Ivanov
  • Adriano Guarnieri
  • Corrado Bartolini
  • Giuseppe Greco
  • Andy Shearer
  • Vyacheslav Sasyuk

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/1710

Keywords:

gamma-ray bursts, high time resolution, wide field photometry

Abstract

Here we briefly summarize our long-term 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. The general hardware requirements for these systems are discussed, along with algorithms for real-time detection and classification of various kinds of short optical transients. We also give a status report on the next generation, the MegaTORTORA multi-objective and transforming monitoring system, whose 6-channel (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Spain) and 9-channel prototypes (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Kazan) we have been building at SAO RAS. This system combines a wide field of view with subsecond temporal resolution in monitoring regime, and is able, within fractions of a second, to reconfigure itself to follow-up mode, which has better sensitivity and simultaneously provides multi-color and polarimetric information on detected transients.

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Author Biographies

  • Sergey Karpov
  • Grigory Beskin
  • Sergey Bondar
  • Alexey Perkov
  • Evgeny Ivanov
  • Adriano Guarnieri
  • Corrado Bartolini
  • Giuseppe Greco
  • Andy Shearer
  • Vyacheslav Sasyuk

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Published

2013-01-01

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2013)

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How to Cite

Karpov, S., Beskin, G., Bondar, S., Perkov, A., Ivanov, E., Guarnieri, A., Bartolini, C., Greco, G., Shearer, A., & Sasyuk, V. (2013). Status and Perspectives of the Mini-MegaTORTORA Wide-field Monitoring System with High Temporal Resolution. Acta Polytechnica, 53(1). https://doi.org/10.14311/1710