In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye Camera System, a proposed high resolution all-sky monitoring device which intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical passbands while still accomplish a high \'etendue. Fundings have already been accepted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in order to design and build a Fly's Eye device unit. Beyond the technical details and the actual scientific goals, this paper also discusses the possibilities and yields of a network operation involving ~10 sites distributed geographically in a nearly homogeneous manner. Currently, we expect to finalize the mount assembly -- that performs the sidereal tracking during the exposures -- until the end of 2012 and to have a working prototype with a reduced number of individual cameras sometimes in the spring or summer of 2013.
@article{arxiv.1306.6564,
title = {The Fly's Eye Camera System -- an instrument design for large \'etendue time-domain survey},
author = {András Pál and László Mészáros and Gergely Csépány and Attila Jaskó and Ferenc Schlaffer and Krisztián Vida and György Mező and László Döbrentei and Ernő Farkas and Csaba Kiss and Katalin Oláh and Zsolt Regály},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6564},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in AN, 4.05 pages. Website of the project: http://flyseye.net/