1989
DOI: 10.1086/115038
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A search for optical flares and flashes with a liquid-mirror telescope

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“…This was followed by tests of a 2.5-m diameter liquid mirror 3 that also showed diffraction limited performance. An important milestone has been reached by Content et al 4 who published the first scientific paper that reported astronomical research with a liquid mirror telescope (LMT). Deep-sky mages have been taken with a LMT that tracked with a driftscanning CCD 5 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This was followed by tests of a 2.5-m diameter liquid mirror 3 that also showed diffraction limited performance. An important milestone has been reached by Content et al 4 who published the first scientific paper that reported astronomical research with a liquid mirror telescope (LMT). Deep-sky mages have been taken with a LMT that tracked with a driftscanning CCD 5 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore some LMTs could use specialized instrumentation to detect very fast time variations. For example Content et al (1989) used a 1.2-m LMT, built on the Laval university campus, to search for optical flares and flashes. They used a very inexpensive homemade telescope and its simplicity can be seen in a photograph of the telescope in Borra, Beauchemin & Lalande (1985).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their search shows that optical flares can easily be detected with a dedicated LMT and that LMTs can be built with very limited funds. As Content et al (1989) explain in their discussion one could easily observe flares, or periodic fluctuations, with time resolutions as small as 0.3 seconds by simply observing stellar trails with a fixed CCD detector, like they did with a photographic detector. Also, Pawlowski et a.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The most complete facility to date is the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) which uses a 3-m liquid mirror (Potter & Mulrooney 1997;Mulrooney 1998). This telescope has also been used to make astronomical research (Content et al 1989;Cabanac, Borra & Beauchemin 1998) that proves the large scientific return for a given cost and the feasability of long astronomical programs using liquid mirror observatories.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%