Pi of the sky - All-sky, real-time search for fast optical transients

New Astronomy

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 409-416

  Burd, A ^a   Cwiok, M ^b   Czyrkowski, H ^b   Dabrowski, R ^b   Dominik, W ^b   Grajda, M ^a   Husejko, M ^a   Jegier, M ^a   Kalicki, A ^a   Kasprowicz, G ^a   Kierzkowski, K ^b   Krupska, K ^c   Kwiecinska, K ^c   Mankiewicz, L ^d   Nawrocki, K ^e   Pilecki, B ^b   Piotrowski, L W ^b   Pozniak, K ^a   Romaniuk, R ^a   Salanski, R ^a   Sokolowski, M ^e   Szczygiel, D ^b   Wrochna, G ^e   Zabolotny, W ^a   more..

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c CARDINAL STEFAN WYSZY SKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Poland)

^e SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Instrumentation: detectors; Methods: miscellaneous; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DETECTORS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GAMMA RAYS; PHOTOMETRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

GAMMA RAYS: BURSTS; INSTRUMENTATION: DETECTORS; METHODS: MISCELLANEOUS; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 20144389419     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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