A search for optical flares and flashes with a liquid-mirror telescope

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Mar 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989aj.....97..917c&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 97, March 1989, p. 917-922. Research supported by NSERC.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Flares, Light Emission, Mirrors, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Telescopes, Charge Coupled Devices, Flash, Liquid Phases

Scientific paper

Two liquid-mirror telescopes with 1.2 and 1 m diameters are used to
search for optical phenomena in the sky with timescales less than 2 min.
A total of 130 hr of usable data was obtained, but no events were
observed. It is concluded that optical flashes and flares are rare
events.

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