TY - JOUR
T1 - ARAGO
T2 - Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries
AU - Boër, Michel
AU - Acker, Agnès
AU - Atteia, Jean Luc
AU - Buchholtz, Gilles
AU - Colas, François
AU - Deleuil, Magali
AU - Dennefeld, Michel
AU - Desert, Jean Michel
AU - Dolez, Noel
AU - Eysseric, J.
AU - Ferlet, Roger
AU - Ferrari, Marc
AU - Jean, Pierre
AU - Klotz, Alain
AU - Kouach, Driss
AU - Des Etangs, Alain Lecavelier
AU - Lemaître, Gérard
AU - Marcowith, Alexandre
AU - Marquette, Jean Baptiste
AU - Meunier, Jean Pierre
AU - Mochkovitch, Robert
AU - Pain, Raynald
AU - Pares, Laurent
AU - Pinna, Henri
AU - Pinna, Roger
AU - Provost, Lionel
AU - Roques, Sylvie
AU - Schneider, Jean
AU - Sivan, Jean Pierre
AU - Soubiran, Caroline
AU - Thiébaut, Carole
AU - Vauclair, Gérard
AU - Verchère, Richard
AU - Vidal-Madjar, Alfred
PY - 2002/12/1
Y1 - 2002/12/1
N2 - We present the Advanced Robotic Agile Observatory (ARAGO), a project for a large variability survey of the sky, in the range 10-8 Hz (year) to 1Hz. Among its scientific objectives are the detection of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, both on alert and serendipitously, orphan afterglows, extrasolar planets, AGNs, quasar microlensing, variable and flare stars, trans-neptunian asteroids, Earth-grazers, orbital debris, etc. A large Education and Public Outreach program will be an important part of the project. The telescope itself will be made of Silicon Carbide, allowing, among other advantages, a very light weight and agile capabilities. ARAGO will be fully autonomous, i.e. there will be no human intervention from the request to the data processing and result dissemination, nor to assist night or day operations. ARAGO will start routine observation by mid-2005.
AB - We present the Advanced Robotic Agile Observatory (ARAGO), a project for a large variability survey of the sky, in the range 10-8 Hz (year) to 1Hz. Among its scientific objectives are the detection of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, both on alert and serendipitously, orphan afterglows, extrasolar planets, AGNs, quasar microlensing, variable and flare stars, trans-neptunian asteroids, Earth-grazers, orbital debris, etc. A large Education and Public Outreach program will be an important part of the project. The telescope itself will be made of Silicon Carbide, allowing, among other advantages, a very light weight and agile capabilities. ARAGO will be fully autonomous, i.e. there will be no human intervention from the request to the data processing and result dissemination, nor to assist night or day operations. ARAGO will start routine observation by mid-2005.
KW - Gamma-rays : burst
KW - Planets: extrasolar
KW - Stars : variable
KW - Telescopes: robotic
KW - Wide-field astronomy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0038304577
U2 - 10.1117/12.457013
DO - 10.1117/12.457013
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0038304577
SN - 0277-786X
VL - 4836
SP - 138
EP - 145
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Y2 - 27 August 2002 through 28 August 2002
ER -