Real-time detection of optical transients with RAPTOR

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461102· OSTI ID:976257

Borozdin, K N ^[1]; Brumby, Steven P; Galassi, M C ^[2]; McGowan, K E ^[3]; Starr, D L ^[4]; Vestrand, W T ^[5]; White, R R ^[6]; Wozniak, P R ^[7]; Wren, J ^[8]

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1. Konstantin N.
2. Mark C.
3. Katherine E.
4. Dan L.
5. W. Thomas
6. Robert R.
7. Przemyslaw R.
8. James

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Real-time data processing and identification of transient, celestial events in the images is very important, for such study as it allows rapid follow-up with more sensitive instruments, We discuss an approach which we have chosen for the RAPTOR project which is a pioneering close-loop system combining real-time transient detection with rapid follow-up. Our data processing pipeline is able to identify and localize an optical transient within seconds after the observation. We describe the challenges we met, solutions we found and some results obtained in our search for fast optical transients. The software pipeline we have developed for RAPTOR can easily be applied to the data from other experiments.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 976257
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-02-5001; TRN: US201009%%405
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 4847; Conference: Submitted to: SPIE Conference "Astronomical Telescopies and Instrumentation", 22-28 August 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
ASTRONOMY
DATA PROCESSING
DETECTION
TRANSIENTS