Robotic optical telescopes global network MASTER II. Equipment, structure, algorithms
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.6904,
title = {Robotic optical telescopes global network MASTER II. Equipment, structure, algorithms},
author = {Victor Kornilov and Vladimir Lipunov and Evgeny Gorbovskoy and Aleksander Belinski and Dmitry Kuvshinov and Natalia Tyurina and Nikolai Shatsky and Anatoly Sankovich and Aleksander Krylov and Pavel Balanutsa and Vadim Chazov and Artem Kuznetsov and Dmitry Zimnuhov and Victor Senik and Andrey Tlatov and Aleksander Parkhomenko and Denis Dormidontov and Vadim Krushinsky and Ivan Zalozhnyh and Aleksander Popov and Sergey Yazev and Nikolai Budnev and Kirill Ivanov and Evgeny Konstantinov and Oleg Gress and Oleg Chvalaev and Vladimir Yurkov and Yury Sergienko and Irina Kudelina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6904},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy, 18 pages, 11 figures