Status and Perspectives of the Mini-MegaTORTORA Wide-field Monitoring System with High Temporal Resolution
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Karpov , Sergey
Beskin , Grigory
Bondar , Sergey
Perkov , Alexey
Ivanov , Evgeny
Guarnieri , Adriano
Bartolini , Corrado
Greco , Giuseppe
Shearer , Andy
Sasyuk , Vyacheslav
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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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