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May 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984aipc..115..687t&link_type=abstract
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 115, pp. 687-693 (1984).
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Ground-Based Ultraviolet, Optical And Infrared Telescopes, Optical Instruments And Equipment
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We have initiated at the Goddard Space Flight Center the development of a small telescope with a very rapid pointing capability whose prupose is to search for and study fast optical transients that may be associated with gamma-ray bursts and other phenomena. The primary motivation for this search is the discovery by Schaefer1 of the existence of a transient optical event from the known location of a gamma-ray burst. The telescope will have the capability of rapidly acquiring any target in the night sky within 0.7 second and locating the object's position with +/-1 arcsec accuracy. The initial detection of the event will be accomplished by the MIT Explosive Transient Camera2,3 or ETC. This will provide rough pointing coordinates to the RMT on the average within ~1 second after the detection of the event.
Cline Thomas L.
Kaipa R.
Teegarden Bonnard J.
von Rosenvinge Tycho T.
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