The Fly's Eye Camera System: An instrument design for large étendue time-domain survey
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A. Pál
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Department of Astronomy, Loránd Eötvös University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest H-1117, Hungary
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, HungarySearch for more papers by this authorL. Mészáros
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Department of Astronomy, Loránd Eötvös University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest H-1117, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorG. Csépány
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorA. Jaskó
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
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MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorK. Vida
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorGy. Mező
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorL. Döbrentei
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorE. Farkas
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorCs. Kiss
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorK. Oláh
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorZs. Regály
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
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A. Pál
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Department of Astronomy, Loránd Eötvös University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest H-1117, Hungary
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, HungarySearch for more papers by this authorL. Mészáros
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Department of Astronomy, Loránd Eötvös University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest H-1117, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorG. Csépány
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorA. Jaskó
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorF. Schlaffer
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorK. Vida
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorGy. Mező
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorL. Döbrentei
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorE. Farkas
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorCs. Kiss
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorK. Oláh
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Search for more papers by this authorZs. Regály
MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
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In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye Camera System, a proposed high resolution allsky monitoring device which intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical passbands while still accomplish a high étendue. 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 ∼10 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. (© 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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