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Pi of the Sky Telescopes in Spain and Chile

Authors :
Małgorzata Siudek
Grzegorz Kasprowicz
R. Wawrzaszek
R. Opiela
Lech Wiktor Piotrowski
A. Majczyna
M. Zaremba
M. Cwiok
M. Jelínek
A. J. Castro-Tirado
Ariel Majcher
Grzegorz Wrochna
Henryk Czyrkowski
Lech Mankiewicz
K. Malek
Krzysztof Nawrocki
T. Batsch
R. Dabrowski
Marcin Sokolowski
Source :
Acta Polytechnica, Vol 51, Iss 6 (2011)
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Czech Technical University in Prague - Central Library, 2011.

Abstract

Pi of the Sky is a system of robotic telescopes designed for observations of short timescale astrophysical phenomena, e.g. prompt optical GRB emissions. The apparatus is designed to monitor a large fraction of the sky with 12–13 m range and time resolution of the order of 1–10 seconds. In October 2010 the first unit of the new Pi of the Sky detector system was successfully installed in the INTA El Arenosillo Test Centre in Spain. We also moved our prototype detector from Las Campanas Observatory to San Pedro de Atacama Observatory in March 2011. The status and performance of both detectors is presented.

Details

ISSN :
18052363 and 12102709
Volume :
51
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Acta Polytechnica
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....458f381489d0865a4a0aefd44256b632