FAVOR (FAst Variability Optical Registration) -- A Two-telescope Complex for Detection and Investigation of Short Optical Transients
Astrophysics
2010-11-11 v1
Abstract
An astronomical complex intended to detect optical transients (OTs) in a wide field and follow them up with high time resolution investigation is described.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0507407,
title = {FAVOR (FAst Variability Optical Registration) -- A Two-telescope Complex for Detection and Investigation of Short Optical Transients},
author = {G. Beskin and V. Bad'in and A. Biryukov and S. Bondar and G. Chuntonov and V. Debur and E. Ivanov and S. Karpov and E. Katkova and V. Plokhotnichenko and A. Pozanenko and I. Zolotukhin and K. Hurley and E. Palazzi and N. Masetti and E. Pian and L. Nicastro and C. Bartolini and A. Guarnieri and A. Piccioni and P. Conconi and E. Molinari and F. M. Zerbi and N. Brosch and D. Eichler and A. Shearer and J. -L. Atteia and M. Boer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0507407},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. To be published in "Il Nuovo Cimento", Proceedings of the 4th Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, eds. L. Piro, L. Amati, S. Covino, B. Gendre