TY - JOUR AU - Karpov, Sergey AU - Beskin, Grigory AU - Bondar, Sergey AU - Perkov, Alexey AU - Ivanov, Evgeny AU - Guarnieri, Adriano AU - Bartolini, Corrado AU - Greco, Giuseppe AU - Shearer, Andy AU - Sasyuk, Vyacheslav PY - 2013/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Status and Perspectives of the Mini-MegaTORTORA Wide-field Monitoring System with High Temporal Resolution JF - Acta Polytechnica JA - Acta Polytech VL - 53 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.14311/1710 UR - https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/ap/article/view/1710 SP - AB - Here we briefly summarize our long-term experience of constructing and operating wide-field monitoring cameras with sub-second temporal resolution to look for optical components of GRBs, fast-moving satellites and meteors. The general hardware requirements for these systems are discussed, along with algorithms for real-time detection and classification of various kinds of short optical transients. We also give a status report on the next generation, the MegaTORTORA multi-objective and transforming monitoring system, whose 6-channel (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Spain) and 9-channel prototypes (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Kazan) we have been building at SAO RAS. This system combines a wide field of view with subsecond temporal resolution in monitoring regime, and is able, within fractions of a second, to reconfigure itself to follow-up mode, which has better sensitivity and simultaneously provides multi-color and polarimetric information on detected transients. ER -