Advances in Astronomy (Jan 2010)

Master Robotic Net

  • Vladimir Lipunov,
  • Victor Kornilov,
  • Evgeny Gorbovskoy,
  • Nikolaj Shatskij,
  • Dmitry Kuvshinov,
  • Nataly Tyurina,
  • Alexander Belinski,
  • Alexander Krylov,
  • Pavel Balanutsa,
  • Vadim Chazov,
  • Artem Kuznetsov,
  • Petr Kortunov,
  • Anatoly Sankovich,
  • Andrey Tlatov,
  • A. Parkhomenko,
  • Vadim Krushinsky,
  • Ivan Zalozhnyh,
  • A. Popov,
  • Taisia Kopytova,
  • Kirill Ivanov,
  • Sergey Yazev,
  • Vladimir Yurkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/349171
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2010

Abstract

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The main goal of the MASTER-Net project is to produce a unique fast sky survey with all sky observed over a single night down to a limiting magnitude of 19-20. Such a survey will make it possible to address a number of fundamental problems: search for dark energy via the discovery and photometry of supernovae (including SNIa), search for exoplanets, microlensing effects, discovery of minor bodies in the Solar System, and space-junk monitoring. All MASTER telescopes can be guided by alerts, and we plan to observe prompt optical emission from gamma-ray bursts synchronously in several filters and in several polarization planes.