MASTER

Map of the location of the telescopes of the Master network

MASTER (Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots) is an international network of Russian fully robotic telescopes.

The telescopes are located in five Russian sites, in South Africa, Argentina, Mexica and the Canary Islands. The system is intended to react quickly to reports of transient astronomical events. It started its development in 2002 under the supervision of Vladimir Lipunov 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 (see GW170817 for details).

Types of observed objects

A MASTER telescope in South Africa

Master is designed to search for optical transients. These include:

Main discoveries

Comets

Comet MASTER may refer to any of the five comets discovered by the survey:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Lipunov, Vladimir; Kornilov, Victor; Gorbovskoy, Evgeny; Shatskij, Nikolaj; Kuvshinov, Dmitry; Tyurina, Nataly; Belinski, Alexander; Krylov, Alexander; Balanutsa, Pavel; Chazov, Vadim; Kuznetsov, Artem; Kortunov, Petr; Sankovich, Anatoly; Tlatov, Andrey; Parkhomenko, A.; Krushinsky, Vadim; Zalozhnyh, Ivan; Popov, A.; Kopytova, Taisia; Ivanov, Kirill; Yazev, Sergey; Yurkov, Vladimir (January 2010). "Master Robotic Net". Advances in Astronomy. 2010 (1). arXiv:0907.0827. Bibcode:2010AdAst2010E..30L. doi:10.1155/2010/349171.
  2. ↑ Lipunov, V. M.; Gorbovskoy, E.; Kornilov, V. G.; Tyurina, N .; Balanutsa, P.; Kuznetsov, A.; Vlasenko, D.; Kuvshinov, D.; Gorbunov, I.; Buckley, D. A. H.; Krylov, A. V.; Podesta, R.; Lopez, C.; Podesta, F.; Levato, H.; Saffe, C.; Mallamachi, C.; Potter, S.; Budnev, N. M.; Gress, O.; Ishmuhametova, Yu.; Vladimirov, V.; Zimnukhov, D.; Yurkov, V.; Sergienko, Yu.; Gabovich, A.; Rebolo, R.; Serra-Ricart, M.; Israelyan, G.; Chazov, V.; Wang, Xiaofeng; Tlatov, A.; Panchenko, M. I. (20 November 2017). "MASTER Optical Detection of the First LIGO/Virgo Neutron Star Binary Merger GW170817". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 850 (1): L1. arXiv:1710.05461. Bibcode:2017ApJ...850L...1L. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa92c0.
  3. ↑ Troja, E.; Lipunov, V. M.; Mundell, C. G.; Butler, N. R.; Watson, A. M.; Kobayashi, S.; Cenko, S. B.; Marshall, F. E.; Ricci, R.; Fruchter, A.; Wieringa, M. H.; Gorbovskoy, E. S.; Kornilov, V.; Kutyrev, A.; Lee, W. H.; Toy, V.; Tyurina, N. V.; Budnev, N. M.; Buckley, D. A. H.; González, J.; Gress, O.; Horesh, A.; Panasyuk, M. I.; Prochaska, J. X.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; Lopez, R. Rebolo; Richer, M. G.; Román-Zúñiga, C.; Serra-Ricart, M.; Yurkov, V.; Gehrels, N. (July 2017). "Significant and variable linear polarization during the prompt optical flash of GRB 160625B". Nature. 547 (7664): 425–427. Bibcode:2017Natur.547..425T. doi:10.1038/nature23289. PMID 28748924.
  4. ↑ O'Connor, Brendan; Troja, Eleonora; Ryan, Geoffrey; Beniamini, Paz; van Eerten, Hendrik; Granot, Jonathan; Dichiara, Simone; Ricci, Roberto; Lipunov, Vladimir; Gillanders, James H.; Gill, Ramandeep; Moss, Michael; Anand, Shreya; Andreoni, Igor; Becerra, Rosa L.; Buckley, David A. H.; Butler, Nathaniel R.; Cenko, Stephen B.; Chasovnikov, Aristarkh; Durbak, Joseph; Francile, Carlos; Hammerstein, Erica; van der Horst, Alexander J.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Kutyrev, Alexander S.; Lee, William H.; Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P.; Topolev, Vladislav; Watson, Alan M.; Yang, Yuhan; Zhirkov, Kirill (9 June 2023). "A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A". Science Advances. 9 (23) eadi1405. arXiv:2302.07906. Bibcode:2023SciA....9I1405O. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi1405. PMC 10246904. PMID 37285439.