The Zadko Telescope: A Southern Hemisphere Telescope for Optical Transient Searches, Multi-Messenger Astronomy and Education

The Zadko Telescope: A Southern Hemisphere Telescope for Optical Transient Searches, Multi-Messenger Astronomy and Education

The new 1m f/4 fast-slew Zadko Telescope was installed in June 2008 about 70 km north of Perth, Western Australia. It is the only metre-class optical facility at this southern latitude between the east coast of Australia and SouthAfrica, and can rapidly image optical transients at a longitude notmo...

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Main Authors: Coward, D., Todd, Michael, Vaalsta, T., Laas-Bourez, M., Klotz, A., Imerito, A., Yan, L., Luckas, P., Fletcher, A., Zadnik, Marjan, Burman, R., Blair, D., Zadko, J., Boer, M., Thierry, P., Howell, E., Gordon, S., Ahmat, A., Moore, J., Frost, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: CSIRO 2010
Subjects:
minor planets
instrumentation: miscellaneous
asteroids
gamma rays: bursts
telescopes
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19291

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