Speaker
Bret Yotti
(University of Cape Town)
Description
Flash is a new telescope being commissioned at the University of Cape Town to later be permanently installed at the South African Astronomical Observatory’s site in Sutherland, Northern Cape. This telescope will have two running modes, both utilizing CMOS technology to image at 1-second cadences. Survey mode will scan the full sky using SDSS filters going as deep as 17.7 magnitudes and covering the visible sky in as little as 1 hour. Staring mode will follow up on transient sources such as fast-radio bursts and gravitational wave events, searching for optical counterparts. The telescope should be commissioned in late 2025, moving to its permanent site in 2026.
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Primary author
Bret Yotti
(University of Cape Town)