MASTER
MASTER (Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots[1]) is an international network of Russian fully robotic telescopes in five Russian sites, and in South Africa, Argentina,Mexica and the Canary Islands.
It is intended to react quickly to reports of transient astronomical events. It started its development in 2002 and has been in fully autonomous operations since 2011.[citation needed]
On 17 August 2017, an autonomous MASTER telescope in Argentina successfully recorded a collision of neutron stars some 130 million light-years away.[2]
Types of observed objects
[edit | edit source]Master is designed to search for optical transients. These include:
- GRB
- Supernovae
- Kilonova
- Novae
- Asteroids, including potentially dangerous ones
- Сataclysmic variables
- Optical orphan flares
- Comets
Main discoveries
[edit | edit source]- Independent discovery of kilonova on August 17, 2017
- Detection of optical polarization of gamma-ray bursts' prompt radiation[3]
- Observation of the brightest gamma-ray burst in history[4]*
Comets
[edit | edit source]Comet MASTER may refer to any of the five comets discovered by the survey:
See also
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External links
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