Real-time detection of optical transients with RAPTOR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4847, Issue , 2002, Pages 344-353

  Borozdin, Konstantin ^a   Brumby, Steven ^a   Galassi, Mark ^a   McGowan, Katherine ^a   Starr, Dan ^a   Thomas Vestrand, W ^a   White, Robert ^a   Wozniak, Przemyslaw ^a   Wren, James ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Optical transients; Real time software pipeline; Robotic telescopes

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ROBOTS;

OPTICAL TRANSIENTS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037964055     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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