Instrumentation of LOTIS: Livermore optical transient imaging system; A fully automated wide-field-of-view telescope system searching for simultaneous optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 658-664

  Park, H S ^a   Ables, E ^a   Barthelmy, S D ^b   Bionta, R M ^a   Ott, L L ^a   Parker, E L ^a   Williams, G G ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic telescope; Gamma ray bursts; Wide field of view telescope

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; STARS; TELESCOPES;

AUTOMATIC TELESCOPES; FIELD OF VIEWS; FULLY AUTOMATED; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; OPTICAL TRANSIENT; SYSTEM DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE; TELESCOPE SYSTEM; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 62849084263     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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