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Extreme Universe through the Eyes of Master Global Robotic Net
This paper considers latest highlights in simultaneous and follow-up optical observations of high energy astrophysical phenomena by MASTER Global Robotic Net. Such extreme Universe sources includes gamma-ray b...
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The First Detection of an Orphan Burst at the Rise Phase
We report on the earliest detection of the optical transient MASTER OT J123248.62-012924.5 coincident within the error box with the optical and X-ray transient AT2021lfa/ZTF21aayokph. In our images the brightn...
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Early Optical Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts Compared with Their Gamma- and X-Ray Characteristics Using a MASTER Global Network of Robotic Telescopes from Lomonosov Moscow State University
We present the results of early observations for 130 error-boxes of gamma-ray bursts performed with the Mobile Astronomical System of TElescope-Robots (MASTER) global network of robotic telescopes from Moscow ...
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The MASTER Global Robotic Telescope Network: Observations of Asteroid NEA 2015 TB145
The results of white-light photometry for a uniquely long series of data (13.5 hours of observations, 1124 measurements) for the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2015 TB145 are presented. These data were obtained wit...
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V404 CYG/GS 2023+338: Monitoring in the Optical with Robotic Telescopes of the MASTER Global Network during the 2015 Superburst
2070 unique, homogeneous photometric and polarization observations of the microquasar in a binary system with a black hole V404 Cyg/GS2023+338 obtained in 2015 with the MASTER global network of robotic telesco...
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The Concept of a Multi-Functional Astronomy Complex and Dynamically Integrated Database Applied to Multi-Channel Observations with the MASTER Global Network
The concept of a multi-functional astronomical complex as applied to robotic astronomy networks and systems is formulated. The practical realization of this concept in the MASTER global network of robotic tele...
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Monitoring of Natural and Technogenic Space Hazards: Results of the Lomonosov Mission and Universat-SOCRAT Project
The results of experiments onboard the Lomonosov satellite on observing natural and technogenic space hazards including electromagnetic transients and space debris are discussed. A new space project Universat-SOC...
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Observation of Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts in the Experiments Onboard Lomonosov and Vernov Satellites
The study of cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) is one of the main goals of the Lomonosov space mission. The main advantage of this mission is simultaneous multiwavelength observations of GRBs covering the optical, X...
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Observations of Near-Earth Optical Transients with the Lomonosov Space Observatory
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 t...
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Complete set of detectors for studying cosmic gamma-ray bursts onboard the Lomonosov satellite
The scientific instruments onboard the Lomonosov satellite include a complete set of detectors designed to study the gamma and optical emission of cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The BDRG gamma spectrometer en...
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Open AccessWide-Field Gamma-Spectrometer BDRG: GRB Monitor On-Board the Lomonosov Mission
The study of GRB prompt emissions (PE) is one of the main goals of the Lomonosov space mission. The payloads of the GRB monitor (BDRG) with the wide-field optical cameras (SHOK) and the ultra-fast flash observ...
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SHOK—The First Russian Wide-Field Optical Camera in Space
Onboard the spacecraft Lomonosov is established two fast, fixed, very wide-field cameras SHOK. The main goal of this experiment is the observation of GRB optical emission before, synchronously, and after the g...
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Open Access“Lomonosov” Satellite—Space Observatory to Study Extreme Phenomena in Space
The “Lomonosov” space project is lead by Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with the following key partners: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia, University of California, Los Angeles ...
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Significant and variable linear polarization during the prompt optical flash of GRB 160625B
The prompt optical flash produced by the γ-ray burst GRB 160625B is highly linearly polarized, suggesting that it is produced by fast-cooling synchrotron radiation in a large-scale magnetic field.
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Erratum to: “Space Experiments aboard the Lomonosov MSU Satellite”
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The BDRG and SHOK instruments for studying gamma-ray burst prompt emission onboard the Lomonosov spacecraft
One of the goals of the Lomonosov satellite designed by scientists of Moscow State University is to study the prompt emission of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. This paper describes the gamma-ray burst monitor in the ga...
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Space experiments aboard the Lomonosov MSU satellite
At present, the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, in cooperation with other organizations, is preparing space experiments onboard the Lomonosov satellite. The main goal of this mission is t...
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The MASTER-II network of robotic optical telescopes. First results
The main stages in the creation of the Russian segment of the MASTER network of robotic telescopes is described. This network is designed for studies of the prompt optical emission of gammaray bursts (GRBs; op...
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Photometric observations of the supernova 2009nr
We present the results of our UBVRI CCD photometry for the second brightest supernova of 2009, SN 2009nr, discovered during a sky survey with the telescopes of the MASTER robotic network. Its light and color curv...
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“Pure” supernovae and accelerated expansion of the Universe
A special class of type Ia supernovae that is not subject to ordinary and additional intragalactic gray absorption and chemical evolution has been identified. Analysis of the Hubble diagrams constructed for th...
