The Fly's Eye Camera System -- an instrument design for large \'etendue time-domain survey
In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye Camera System, a proposed high resolution all-sky monitoring device which intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical passbands while still accomplish a high \'etendue. Fundings have alrea...
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Zusammenfassung: | In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye
Camera System, a proposed high resolution all-sky monitoring device which
intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical
passbands while still accomplish a high \'etendue. Fundings have already been
accepted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in order to design and build a
Fly's Eye device unit. Beyond the technical details and the actual scientific
goals, this paper also discusses the possibilities and yields of a network
operation involving $\sim10$ sites distributed geographically in a nearly
homogeneous manner. Currently, we expect to finalize the mount assembly -- that
performs the sidereal tracking during the exposures -- until the end of 2012
and to have a working prototype with a reduced number of individual cameras
sometimes in the spring or summer of 2013. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2004 |