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Oct 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983het..workr....t&link_type=abstract
In its Goddard Space Flight Center Contrib. to the Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz Summer Workshop on High Energy Transients 7 p (S
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Gamma Ray Bursts, Light Emission, Pointing Control Systems, Position (Location), Surges, Telescopes, Cameras, Charge Coupled Devices, Control Equipment, Gimbals, Mirrors
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The development of a small telescope with a very rapid pointing capability is described whose purpose 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 of the existence of a transient optical event from the known location of a gamma-ray bursts. The telescope has the capability of rapidly acquiring any target in the night sky within 0.7 second and locating the object's position with + or - 1 arcsec accuracy. The initial detection of the event is accomplished by the MIT explosive transient camera or ETC. This provides rough pointing coordinates to the RMT on the average within approximately 1 second after the detection of the event.
Cline Thomas L.
Kaipa R.
Teegarden Bonnard J.
von Rosenvinge Tycho T.
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