The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System in the multi-messenger astronomy era
Abstract
The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System (BOOTES) was first designed as an asset of autonomous telescopes that started to be deployed in 1998, taking 24 years to be fully developed around the Earth. Nowadays BOOTES has became a global network of robotic telescopes, being the first one present in all continents, as of 2022. Here we present the details of the network and review its achievements over the last two decades regarding follow-up observations of high-energy transient events. Moreover, considering the recent operations of neutrino and gravitational wave detectors, some hot-topic expectations related to robotic astronomy are discussed within the framework of multi-wavelength astrophysics.
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@article{arxiv.2302.06565,
title = {The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System in the multi-messenger astronomy era},
author = {Y. -D. Hu and E. Fernández-García and M. D. Caballero-García and I. Pérez-García and I. M. Carrasco-García and A. Castellón and C. Pérez del Pulgar and A. J. Reina Terol and A. J. Castro-Tirado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06565},
year = {2023}
}
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Accepted for publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences