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- Title
Observations of Near-Earth Optical Transients with the Lomonosov Space Observatory.
- Authors
Lipunov, V. M.; Gorbovskoy, E. S.; Kornilov, V. G.; Chazov, V. V.; Panasyuk, M. I.; Svertilov, S. I.; Yashin, I. V.; Petrov, V. L.; Kallegaev, V. V.; Amelushkin, A. A.; Vlasenko, D. M.
- Abstract
The results of observations with the MASTER-SHOK robotic wide-field optical cameras onboard the Lomonosov Space Observatory carried out in 2016 are presented. In all, the automated transient detection system transmitted 22 181 images of moving objects with signal-to-noise ratios greater than 5 to the Earth. Approximately 84% of these images are identified with well-known artificial Earth satellites (including repeated images of the same satellite) and fragments of such satellites (space debris), according to databases of known satellites. The remaining 16% of the images are relate to uncatalogued objects. This first experience in optical space-based monitoring of near-Earth space demonstrates the high efficiency and great potential of using large-aperture cameras in space, based on the software and technology of the MASTER robotic optical complexes (the Mobile Astronomical System of TElescope- Robots (MASTER) global network of robotic telescopes of Lomonosov Moscow State University).
- Subjects
NEAR-earth asteroids; OPTICAL transient phenomena; NATURAL satellites; TELESCOPES; OPTICAL space communication systems
- Publication
Astronomy Reports, 2018, Vol 62, Issue 7, p426
- ISSN
1063-7729
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1134/S1063772918070016