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Observations of Near-Earth Optical Transients with the Lomonosov Space Observatory

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The results of observations with the MASTER-SHOK robotic wide-field optical cameras onboard the Lomonosov Space Observatory carried out in 2016 are presented. In all, the automated transient detection system transmitted 22 181 images of moving objects with signal-to-noise ratios greater than 5 to the Earth. Approximately 84% of these images are identified with well-known artificial Earth satellites (including repeated images of the same satellite) and fragments of such satellites (space debris), according to databases of known satellites. The remaining 16% of the images are relate to uncatalogued objects. This first experience in optical space-based monitoring of near-Earth space demonstrates the high efficiency and great potential of using large-aperture cameras in space, based on the software and technology of the MASTER robotic optical complexes (the Mobile Astronomical System of TElescope- Robots (MASTER) global network of robotic telescopes of Lomonosov Moscow State University).

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  1. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. M. Lipunov, E. S. Gorbovskoy, V. G. Kornilov, V. V. Chazov & D. M. Vlasenko

  2. Physics Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia

    V. M. Lipunov, V. G. Kornilov, S. I. Svertilov & D. M. Vlasenko

  3. Skobel’tsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, Moscow, 119234, Russia

    M. I. Panasyuk, S. I. Svertilov, I. V. Yashin, V. L. Petrov, V. V. Kallegaev & A. A. Amelushkin

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Lipunov, E.S. Gorbovskoy, V.G. Kornilov, V.V. Chazov, M.I. Panasyuk, S.I. Svertilov, I.V. Yashin, V.L. Petrov, V.V. Kallegaev, A.A. Amelushkin, D.M. Vlasenko, 2018, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 95, No. 7, pp. 455–465.

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Lipunov, V.M., Gorbovskoy, E.S., Kornilov, V.G. et al. Observations of Near-Earth Optical Transients with the Lomonosov Space Observatory. Astron. Rep. 62, 426–435 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772918070016

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