Searching for optical transients in real-time : the RAPTOR experiment /.
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A rich, but relatively unexplored, region in optical astronomy is the study of transients with durations of less than a day. We describe a wide-field optical monitoring system, RAPTOR, which is designed to identify and make follow-up observations of optical transients in real-time. The system is composed of an array of telescopes that continuously monitor about 1500 square degrees of the sky for transients down to about 12' magnitude in 60 seconds and a central fovea telescope that can reach 16…
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Date:
January 1, 2002
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Vestrand, W. T. (W. Thomas); Borozdin, K. N. (Konstantin N.); Brumby, Steven P.; Casperson, D. E. ( Donald E.); Fenimore, Edward E.; Galassi, M. C. (Mark C.) et al.
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