DDOTI: The deca-degree optical transient imager

Alan M. Watson; William H. Lee; Eleonora Troja; Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga; Nathaniel Butler; Alexander S. Kutyrev; Neil A. Gehrels; Fernando Ángeles; Stéphane Basa; Pierre Eric Blanc; Michel Boer; Jose A. De Diego; Alejandro S. Farah; Liliana Figueroa; Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew; Alain Klotz; Fernando Quirós; Maurico Reyes-Ruíz; Jaime Ruíz-Diáz-Soto; Pierre Thierry; Silvio Tinoco

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DDOTI: The deca-degree optical transient imager

Alan M. Watson, William H. Lee, Eleonora Troja, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Nathaniel Butler, Alexander S. Kutyrev, Neil A. Gehrels, Fernando Ángeles, Stéphane Basa, Pierre Eric Blanc, Michel Boer, Jose A. De Diego, Alejandro S. Farah, Liliana Figueroa, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Alain Klotz, Fernando Quirós, Maurico Reyes-Ruíz, Jaime Ruíz-Diáz-Soto, Pierre ThierrySilvio Tinoco

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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Abstract

DDOTI will be a wide-field robotic imager consisting of six 28-cm telescopes with prime focus CCDs mounted on a common equatorial mount. Each telescope will have a field of view of 12 deg², will have 2 arcsec pixels, and will reach a 10σ limiting magnitude in 60 seconds of r 18:7 in dark time and r 18:0 in bright time. The set of six will provide an instantaneous field of view of about 72 deg². DDOTI uses commercial components almost entirely. The first DDOTI will be installed at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in Sierra San Pedro Martír, Baja California, México in early 2017. The main science goals of DDOTI are the localization of the optical transients associated with GRBs detected by the GBM instrument on the Fermi satellite and with gravitational-wave transients. DDOTI will also be used for studies of AGN and YSO variability and to determine the occurrence of hot Jupiters. The principal advantage of DDOTI compared to other similar projects is cost: a single DDOTI installation costs only about US$500,000. This makes it possible to contemplate a global network of DDOTI installations. Such geographic diversity would give earlier access and a higher localization rate. We are actively exploring this option.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Observatory Operations
Subtitle of host publication	Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI
Editors	Alison B. Peck, Robert L. Seaman, Chris R. Benn
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510601994
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232898
State	Published - 2016
Event	Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 27 2016 → Jul 1 2016

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9910
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	6/27/16 → 7/1/16

Keywords

gamma-ray bursts
gravitational-wave transients
optical transients
robotic telescopes
synoptic observations
wide-field imagers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Watson, A. M., Lee, W. H., Troja, E., Román-Zúñiga, C. G., Butler, N., Kutyrev, A. S., Gehrels, N. A., Ángeles, F., Basa, S., Blanc, P. E., Boer, M., De Diego, J. A., Farah, A. S., Figueroa, L., Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y., Klotz, A., Quirós, F., Reyes-Ruíz, M., Ruíz-Diáz-Soto, J., ... Tinoco, S. (2016). DDOTI: The deca-degree optical transient imager. In A. B. Peck, R. L. Seaman, & C. R. Benn (Eds.), Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI Article 99100F (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9910). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232898

DDOTI: The deca-degree optical transient imager. / Watson, Alan M.; Lee, William H.; Troja, Eleonora et al.
Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI. ed. / Alison B. Peck; Robert L. Seaman; Chris R. Benn. SPIE, 2016. 99100F (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9910).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Watson, AM, Lee, WH, Troja, E, Román-Zúñiga, CG, Butler, N, Kutyrev, AS, Gehrels, NA, Ángeles, F, Basa, S, Blanc, PE, Boer, M, De Diego, JA, Farah, AS, Figueroa, L, Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y, Klotz, A, Quirós, F, Reyes-Ruíz, M, Ruíz-Diáz-Soto, J, Thierry, P & Tinoco, S 2016, DDOTI: The deca-degree optical transient imager. in AB Peck, RL Seaman & CR Benn (eds), Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI., 99100F, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9910, SPIE, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 6/27/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232898

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