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Primary objective of the observatory is to provide simultaneous and follow-up optical observations of high-energy transient cosmic phenomena, such as Gamma-Ray bursts, Soft gamma repeaters, Supernova and similar. Using its wide-field capabilities, | Primary objective of the observatory is to provide simultaneous and follow-up optical observations of high-energy transient cosmic phenomena, such as Gamma-Ray bursts, Soft gamma repeaters, Supernova and similar. Using its wide-field capabilities, | ||
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===== History ===== | ===== History ===== | ||
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+ | BOOTES was founded in 1998, with a single dome and a 20 cm Meade LX200 mount, piggybacked with two wide-field lenses with the idea to follow BATSE alerts and to perform automated scans of the sky. These old GRB alerts had large uncertrainities, | ||
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===== Instrumentation ===== | ===== Instrumentation ===== | ||
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+ | BOOTES-1B is a 30 cm Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a fast slewing Paramount-ME mount, equipped with a FLI CM-8 1536x1024 pixel (Kodak KAF1602) CCD camera. It's primary objective is follow-up of satellite GRB alerts. It can interrupt the ongoing observation, | ||
- | BOOTES-1B is a 30 cm Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain | + | The telescope |
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- | The telescope observes without filters to maximize throughput. | + | |
Since its installation the telescope has followed 5 GRBs with positive detections. These are GRB 080330, GRB 080413A, GRB 080430, GRB 080603B and GRB 080605. | Since its installation the telescope has followed 5 GRBs with positive detections. These are GRB 080330, GRB 080413A, GRB 080430, GRB 080603B and GRB 080605. | ||
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==== BOOTES-1A ==== | ==== BOOTES-1A ==== | ||
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+ | The new incarnation of BOOTES-1A, still under comissioning, | ||
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+ | To achieve optimum performance, | ||
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+ | Piggybacked atop the large lens, there is a small 1536x1024 CCD camera FLI MX8 with Nikkor 18mm/2.8 wide-field lens, providing even larger field of view - 40°x26°, similar to the size of the earliest // | ||
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==== BOOTES-ASM1 ==== | ==== BOOTES-ASM1 ==== | ||
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===== Weather sensing ===== | ===== Weather sensing ===== | ||
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+ | As an independent robotic observatory, | ||
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+ | * Manual blocking (implemented, | ||
+ | * Rain sensor (implemented, | ||
+ | * Weather sensor tower (implemented, | ||
+ | * Cloud-meter (implemented, | ||
+ | * Allsky camera (implemented, | ||
+ | * Meteosat image processing (implemented, | ||
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