We present the earliest astronomical observation of a high energy neutrino error box in which its variability was discovered after high-energy neutrinos detection. The one robotic telescope of the MASTER global international network (Lipunov et al. 2010) automatically imaged the error box of the very high-energy neutrino event IceCube-170922A. Observations were carried out in minute after the IceCube-170922A neutrino event was detected by the IceCube observatory at the South Pole. MASTER found the blazar TXS 0506+056 to be in the off-state after one minute and then switched to the on-state no later than two hours after the event. The effect is observed at a 50-sigma significance level. Also we present own unique 16-years light curve of blazar TXS 0506+056 (518 data set).
With the discovery of gamma ray bursts1,2, it became clear that our Universe flickers with superfast catastrophic events, sometimes lasting for a thousandths of a second. These ultra-fast transients - the peculiar one-day butterflies of the Universe - shine so brightly that they are noticed even on the other end of the Universe and, moreover, by very small telescopes. But in the radio range, the sky remained silent until the beginning of the 21st century. Only in 2007, radio astronomers analyzing archival observations of the Parkes Radio Telescope first encountered fast transients 3,4 . About a hundred such sources have already been discovered. We report the first optical observation of the closest radio burster FRB 180916.J0158+655-8 synchronously with a radio burst. In total, we obtained about 155,093 images at MASTER Global Robotic Net9*. In the course of our observations, we found a new method for detecting objects deep below the noise level. In addition, using the new method, we found the excess of photons in the FRB direction at a level of 23 m associated with the emission of the host galaxy.
The Multimessenger discovery of the merger of two neutron stars on August 17, 2017, GW170817 / GRB170817a, accompanied by a gamma-ray burst and an optical kilonova, is a triumph of the ideas about the evolution of the baryon component in the Universe. Despite the current uniqueness of this observation, the obtained variety of experimental data makes it possible right now to draw important theoretical conclusions about the origin of the double neutron star, their merger, and the subsequent flare-up of the electromagnetic radiation. We present that the discovery of the merger at a distance of 40 Mpc is in full agreement with the very first calculations of the Scenario Machine (Lipunov et al. 1987). In modern terms, the predicted rate is ~ 10 000 Gpc -3 .
We present the results of MASTER Global Robotic Net optical observations of the LIGO GW170104 error-box during the LIGO/Virgo O2 run. We observed 3421 square degrees inside 3σ error-field. Dozens of optical transients unrelated to gravitational waves were discovered as the result of MASTER observation strategy, that we presented, including short very bright MASTER optical transients J133017.28+780951.8.
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