scholarly journals OBSERVATIONS OF TRANSIENT EVENTS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM WITH SUB-SECOND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION

Author(s):  
S. Karpov ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
A. Biryukov ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
E. Ivanov ◽  
...  

Here we present the summary of operation of a novel 9-channel wide-field optical monitoring system with subsecond temporal resolution, Mini-MegaTORTORA, which systematically surveys the sky since 2014 at Special Astrophysical Observatory on Russian Caucasus. The system is able to observe the sky simultaneously in either wide (∼900 square degrees) or narrow (∼100 square degrees fields of view, either in clear light or with any combination of color (Johnson-Cousins B, V or R) and polarimetric filters installed, with exposure times ranging from 0.1 s to hundreds of seconds. The real-time system data analysis pipeline performs automatic detection of rapid transient events, both near-Earth and extragalactic. The objects routinely detected by Mini-MegaTORTORA also include faint meteors and artificial satellites. The imaging survey performed by Mini-MegaTORTORA also allows to look for a slower variability of various kinds of objects.

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Biryukov ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
S. Karpov ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
E. Ivanov ◽  
...  

AbstractWe describe the first light of a new 9-channel wide-field optical monitoring system with sub-second temporal resolution, Mini-MegaTORTORA, which is being tested now at the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russian Caucasus. The system is able to observe the sky simultaneously in either wide (~900 deg


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Bieger ◽  
Quentin Changeat

<p>Retrieval tools provide a way of determining an exoplanet atmosphere's temperature structure and composition with an observed planetary spectrum, working backwards to determine the chemistry and temperature by iteratively comparing synthetic spectra that have been constructed via a forward model to the observed spectra and determining a best-fit result (Barstow and Heng, 2020). This talk will be presenting the emission and reanalysed transmission spectrum and retrieval analysis of WASP-79b, an inflated hot Jupiter first detected by Smalley et al. (2012). Previous transmission spectra of WASP-79b has been analysed in Sozten et al. (2020), Skaf et al. (2020), and Rathcke et al. (2021); all studies agreeing on detections of H2O with various confidence levels, with the latter finding moderate evidence of an H- bound-free opacity compared to iron hydride abundance found by the other studies. Using the publicly available \verb+Iraclis+ data analysis pipeline and the Bayesian atmospheric retrieval framework TauREx 3, we will be adding to the global picture of this planet by examining the Hubble Space Telescope emission spectra as captured by the Wide Field Camera 3 G141 grism (PI: David Sing, proposal ID: 14767). </p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 465-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Karpov ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
A. Perkov ◽  
E. Ivanov ◽  
...  

10.14311/1710 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Karpov ◽  
Grigory Beskin ◽  
Sergey Bondar ◽  
Alexey Perkov ◽  
Evgeny Ivanov ◽  
...  

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.


Author(s):  
S. Karpov ◽  
N. Orekhova ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
A. Biryukov ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
...  

Here we present the results of our four years long observations of meteors with Mini-MegaTORTORA wide-field monitoring system with sub-second temporal resolution. Over this period, we detected and catalogued more than 175000 faint meteors with magnitudes down to 8-10 mag and angular velocities up to 40 deg/s. Recently, we started double-station observations using Mini-MegaTORTORA together with reconstructed FAVOR camera on 3.8 km baseline. This setup allows to observe tens of faint meteors per night. We present the preliminary results of such observations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S324) ◽  
pp. 85-86
Author(s):  
S. Karpov ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
A. Biryukov ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
E. Ivanov ◽  
...  

AbstractHere we report ongoing efforts for an untriggered search of rapid optical transients of various astrophysical and non-astrophysical origins on time scales down to fractions of a second with Mini-MegaTORTORA. Mini-MegaTORTORA is a novel 9-channel wide-field optical monitoring system in operation since 2014 at Special Astrophysical Observatory on Russian Caucasus.


2013 ◽  
Vol 183 (8) ◽  
pp. 888-894
Author(s):  
G.M. Beskin ◽  
S.V. Karpov ◽  
V.L. Plokhotnichenko ◽  
S.F. Bondar ◽  
A.V. Perkov ◽  
...  

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