Research Article

Wide and Fast: Monitoring the Sky in Subsecond Domain with the FAVOR and TORTORA Cameras

Table 1

Wide-field monitoring cameras currently in operation. For FAVOR and TORTORA the limits correspond to 3 detection on a single frame, and differ from their real-time operational values.

Name Field of view Temporal resolution Limit
(degrees) (seconds) (magnitudes)

WIDGET 62 62 5
RAPTOR A/B 40 40 60
RAPTOR Q 180 180 10
BOOTES 16 11 30
of the Sky 33 33 10
AROMA-W 25 35 5–100
MASTER-VWF 20 21 5
MASTER-Net 30 30 1

FAVOR 16 24 0.13
TORTORA 24 32 0.13