scholarly journals Status and perspectives of Mini-MegaTORTORA wide-field monitoring system with high temporal resolution

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 465-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Karpov ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
A. Perkov ◽  
E. Ivanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Field Monitoring ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Wide Field

scholarly journals Status and Perspectives of the Mini-MegaTORTORA Wide-field Monitoring System with High Temporal Resolution

10.14311/1710 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Karpov ◽  
Grigory Beskin ◽  
Sergey Bondar ◽  
Alexey Perkov ◽  
Evgeny Ivanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Field Monitoring ◽  
Status Report ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Optical Components

Here we briefly summarize our long-term experience of constructing and operating wide-field monitoring cameras with sub-second temporal resolution to look for optical components of GRBs, fast-moving satellites and meteors. The general hardware requirements for these systems are discussed, along with algorithms for real-time detection and classification of various kinds of short optical transients. We also give a status report on the next generation, the MegaTORTORA multi-objective and transforming monitoring system, whose 6-channel (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Spain) and 9-channel prototypes (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Kazan) we have been building at SAO RAS. This system combines a wide field of view with subsecond temporal resolution in monitoring regime, and is able, within fractions of a second, to reconfigure itself to follow-up mode, which has better sensitivity and simultaneously provides multi-color and polarimetric information on detected transients.

scholarly journals TWO-STATION METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA AND FAVOR WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 127-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Karpov ◽  
N. Orekhova ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
A. Biryukov ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Field Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Angular Velocities

Here we present the results of our four years long observations of meteors with Mini-MegaTORTORA wide-field monitoring system with sub-second temporal resolution. Over this period, we detected and catalogued more than 175000 faint meteors with magnitudes down to 8-10 mag and angular velocities up to 40 deg/s. Recently, we started double-station observations using Mini-MegaTORTORA together with reconstructed FAVOR camera on 3.8 km baseline. This setup allows to observe tens of faint meteors per night. We present the preliminary results of such observations.

scholarly journals The First Light of Mini-MegaTORTORA Wide-Field Monitoring System

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Biryukov ◽  
G. Beskin ◽  
S. Karpov ◽  
S. Bondar ◽  
E. Ivanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Field Monitoring ◽  
Special Astrophysical Observatory ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Optical Monitoring

AbstractWe describe the first light of a new 9-channel wide-field optical monitoring system with sub-second temporal resolution, Mini-MegaTORTORA, which is being tested now at the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russian Caucasus. The system is able to observe the sky simultaneously in either wide (~900 deg

Wide-field optical monitoring with Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) multichannel high temporal resolution telescope

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Beskin ◽  
S. V. Karpov ◽  
A. V. Biryukov ◽  
S. F. Bondar ◽  
E. A. Ivanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Optical Monitoring

scholarly journals Wide and Fast: Monitoring the Sky in Subsecond Domain with the FAVOR and TORTORA Cameras

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Karpov ◽  
Grigory Beskin ◽  
Sergey Bondar ◽  
Adriano Guarnieri ◽  
Corrado Bartolini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Astrophysical Objects ◽  
Flare Stars ◽  
Real Time Data Processing ◽  
X Ray Binaries ◽  
Near Earth Objects

In order to detect and investigate short stochastic optical flares from a number of variable astrophysical objects (GRBs, SNe, flare stars, CVs, X-Ray binaries) of unknown localizations as well as near-earth objects (NEOs), both natural and artificial, it is necessary to perform the systematic monitoring of large regions of the sky with high temporal resolution. Here we discuss the criteria for a system that is able to perform such a task and describe two cameras we created for wide-field monitoring with high temporal resolution—FAVOR and TORTORA. Also, we describe basic principles of real-time data processing for the high frame rates needed to achieve subsecond temporal resolution on a typical hardware.

scholarly journals A Low-Cost, Open Source Monitoring System for Collecting High Temporal Resolution Water Use Data on Magnetically Driven Residential Water Meters

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 3655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo J. Bastidas Pacheco ◽  
Jeffery S. Horsburgh ◽  
Robb J. Tracy
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Residential Water Use ◽  
Water Meters ◽  
Residential Water

We present a low-cost (≈$150) monitoring system for collecting high temporal resolution residential water use data without disrupting the operation of commonly available water meters. This system was designed for installation on top of analog, magnetically driven, positive displacement, residential water meters and can collect data at a variable time resolution interval. The system couples an Arduino Pro microcontroller board, a datalogging shield customized for this specific application, and a magnetometer sensor. The system was developed and calibrated at the Utah Water Research Laboratory and was deployed for testing on five single family residences in Logan and Providence, Utah, for a period of over 1 month. Battery life for the device was estimated to be over 5 weeks with continuous data collection at a 4 s time interval. Data collected using this system, under ideal installation conditions, was within 2% of the volume recorded by the register of the meter on which they were installed. Results from field deployments are presented to demonstrate the accuracy, functionality, and applicability of the system. Results indicate that the device is capable of collecting data at a temporal resolution sufficient for identifying individual water use events and analyzing water use at coarser temporal resolutions. This system is of special interest for water end use studies, future projections of residential water use, water infrastructure design, and for advancing our understanding of water use timing and behavior. The system’s hardware design and software are open source, are available for potential reuse, and can be customized for specific research needs.

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