Research Article

From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients

Table 1

Typical 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 (degrees) Temporal resolution (seconds) Limit

WIDGET 5
RAPTOR A/B 60
RAPTOR Q 10
BOOTES 30
BOOTES-AllSky 30
of the Sky 10
AROMA-W 5–100
MASTER-VWF 5
MASTER-Net 1

FAVOR 0.13
TORTORA 0.13