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II WORKSHOP ON ROBOTIC AUTONOMOUS OBSERVATORIES
(Málaga, 5-10 June 2011)
FINAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Hotel Pueblo Camino Real, Avenida de la Riviera 25, Urb. Los Álamos (Torremolinos, Málaga, Spain)
Sunday 5 June
16:30 Registration opens at Hotel Pueblo Camino Real Main Entrance’s Desk
19:30 Registration closes
20:00 Cocktail reception at Hotel Pueblo Camino Real Swimming pool
surroundings.
Monday 6 June
09:00 Registration opens at Conference Room and Posters Display
09:45 Official Opening
Session I New HW and SW development (I) (morning chairperson: A. Ullán)
10:00-10:30 Robotic Telescopes at Javalambre: the Javalambre-PAU
Astrophysical Survey (J. Cenarro, INVITED) (PDF)
10:30-10:45 The Baker Observatory Robotic Autonomous Telescope (L. Hicks) (PDF)
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Session I New HW and SW development (II)
11:15-11:45 The MITSUME robotic telescope in Japan (N. Kawai, INVITED) (PDF)
11:45-12:00 Robotic telescope CHASE-500 (N. Ramos) (PDF)
12:00-12:15 The STELLA échelle spectrograph, five years of robotic high-
resolution spectroscopy (M. Weber) (PDF)
12:15-12:30 Observing with the Telescopi Joan Oró at the OAdM
(F. Vilardell) (PDF)
12:30-12:45 Robotization progress in TROBAR (F. Ballesteros) (PDF)
12:45-13:00 Results of analysis of the detector response of the Pi of the
Sky experiment (L. Piotrowski) (PDF)
13:00-15:30 Lunch
Session II Real-time analysis pipelines (afternoon chairperson: M. Reed)
15:30-16:00 Automatic seeing monitor of Sternberg Astronomical institute
(V. Kornilov, INVITED) (PDF)
16:00-16:15 Software for the MegaTORTORA wide-field monitoring camera
with sub-second temporal resolution (V. Berkutov) (PDF)
16:15-16:30 Photometric analysis of the Pi of the Sky data (M. Siudek) (PDF)
Poster reports (A)
16:30-16:45 120s each (6x, see last page for titles)
16:45-17:15 Coffee Break
Session III Archiving the data and quality control
17:15-17:45 From the telescope to the computer: How improve the archiving
(L. Cuesta, INVITED) (PDF)
17:45-18:00 GRBase, a help for data mining (B. Gendre) (PDF)
Joint Discussion
18:00-18:30 (for Sessions I-IV) Chair: F. Özeren
Tuesday 7 June
Session IV Telescope and Observatory Control Systems (chairperson: J. F. Le Borgne)
09:15-09:45 AUDELA (A. Klotz) (PDF)
09:45-10:00 RTS2: progress in last two years (P. Kubánek) (PDF)
10:00-10:15 The STELLA control software (T. Granzer) (PDF)
10:15-10:30 The robotic environment system for LAMOST (Z. Cao) (PDF)
Poster reports (B)
10:30-10:45: 120s each (6x, see last page for titles)
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Session V Scientific results obtained by means of robotic Observatories (I) (chairperson: A. Moskvitin)
11:15-11:45 The STELLA Telescopes (K. Strassmeier, INVITED) (PDF)
11:45-12:00 The PLATO robotic Antarctic observatories (J. Storey) (PDF)
12:00-12:15 Robotic telescopes BART & D50 (J. Strobl) (PDF)
12:15-12:30 First observations of the Fabra-ROA Telescope at the Montsec
Astronomic Observatory (J. L. Muiños) (PDF)
12:30-12:45 Current performance of the CAB robotic telescope: the road to
high precision photometry (M. T. Eibe) (PDF)
12:45-13:00 Optical monitoring of FRII radiogalaxies (S. Zola) (PDF)
13:00-15:30 Lunch
Session V Scientific results obtained by means of robotic Observatories (II) (afternoon chairperson: J. Saucedo Morales)
15:30-16:00 The Impact of Networks of Robotic Telescopes in Continuous
Monitoring of High Energy Cosmic Sources (F. Giovannelli,
INVITED) (PDF)
16:00-16:15 Activity of mass-accreting compact objects and its optical
and X-ray monitoring (V. Simon) (PDF)
16:15-16:30 First robotic GRB results from WiFSIP on STELLA (A. Jarvinen) (PDF)
16:30-16:45 The story of BOOTES-2, from WF cameras to COLORES
(M. Jelinek) (PDF)
16:45-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-17:30 Follow-up observations versus synchronous observations of GRB
(A. Pozanenko) (PDF)
17:30-17:45 Optical transients observations by MASTER-Net (N. Tyurina) (PDF)
Joint Discussion
17:45-18:15 (for Sessions V-VII) Chair: L. Hanlon
22:00 Flamenco show at Hotel Camino Real
Wednesday 8 June
Excursion Day (Granada, including a guided visit to Alhambra palaces with the lunch at a nearby hotel, also included)
Thursday 9 June
Session VI Global Networks and protocols (chairperson: N. Kawai)
09:15-09:30 The BOOTES World-Wide Network of Robotic Telescopes
(A.J. Castro-Tirado) (PDF)
09:30-09:45 MASTER Global Robotic Net (V. Lipunov) (PDF)
09:45-10:00 Pi of the Sky telescopes in Spain and Chile (M. Zaremba) (PDF)
10:00-10:15 China-RAON, Robotic Autonomous Observatory Network in China
(C. Cui) (PDF)
10:15-10:30 The 1.23m CAHA telescope: combining upgrades and scientific
observations (J. Gorosabel) (PDF)
Poster reports (C)
10:30-10:45 120s each (6x, see last page for titles)
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Session VII Public Outreach and Citizen Science (chairperson: J. Gorosabel)
11:15-11:45 Engaging the public with science using robotic and remote
telescopes(N. Smith, INVITED) (PDF)
11:45-12:00 Zoouniverse (L. Mankiewicz) (PDF)
12:00-12:15 GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science
(F. Sánchez Moreno) (PDF)
12:15-12:30 Solaris – a professional astronomical observatory on the roof
of a hypermarket (A. Kurek) (PDF)
12:30-12:45 EMO Green astronomy projects and the community (N. Hezam) (PDF)
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Joint Discussion
12:45-13:15 (for Sessions VIII-IX) Chair: J. Gorosabel
13:15- Lunch & Free Afternoon (3-hr guided visit to Málaga with bus
departure at 15:00 returning at 18:30 with the bus back
at hotel at 18:50)
20:30- Conference Dinner in Málaga. Bus departures at 19:45 at 50 m
from the Hotel Camino Real main entrance. Returning at 24:00.
Friday 10 June
Session VIII Educational Applications (chairperson: S. Guziy)
09:30-10:00 Pedagogical opportunities and issues with the operation of
robotic telescopes for astronomy studies. A new type of
e-learning (J. Baruch, INVITED) (PDF)
10:00-10:15 The Antola Telescope. New Facility Oriented to Education
(F. Zerbi) (PDF)
10:15-10:30 DSLR photometry (S. Vitek) (PDF)
10:30-10:45 PARTNeR: Remote Access Radio Telescope for Students
(J. A. Vaquerizo) (PDF)
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Session IX Future Strategies (chairperson: M. Jurkovic)
11:15-11:30 Robotic telescope Milankovic in Serbia (M. Bogosavljevic) (PDF)
11:30-11:45 BOVIS - the visible hand of BIRCAM (A. Riva) (PDF)
11:45-12:00 Wide and fast. Status update on FAVOR project and MegaTORTORA
system (S. Karpov) (PDF)
11:00-12:15 The role of robotic telescopes in space astronomy (R. Hudec) (PDF)
Joint Discussion
12:15-12:45 (for sessions X-XI) Chair: R. Cunniffe
Conference Summary
12:45-13:15 (F. Zarnecki)
13:15 Adjourn
Appendix.
Posters for posters session A (Monday 6 June):
1. On detecting variables using ROTSE-IIId archival data (C. Yesilyaprak)
2. Light curves of exoplanets with the INTA-CAB Robotic Telescope (A. Ullán) (PDF)
3. Highlight Results from the Watcher Robotic Telescope (S. Meehan) (PDF)
4. How to build a cheap remote solar-powered site monitor (R. Cunniffe) (PDF)
5. Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS (A. Moskvitin) (PDF)
6. Kyiv Internet Telescope Project (A. Romanyuk) (PDF)
Posters for posters session B (Tuesday 7 June):
1. Lessons from the Baker Observatory Sub-minute Survey (M. Reed) (PDF)
2. Future robotic observatory on mountain Vidojevica: site and equipment
specifications (N. Martinovic) (PDF)
3. The Carl Sagan Solar and Stellar Observatory as a Remote Observatory
(J. Saucedo Morales) (PDF)
4. Possible applications for new wide field optical cameras in framework of a project of space debris observatories (A. Pozanenko) (PDF)
5. Image intensifier in astronomy: noise analysis and image processing
(S. Vitek) (PDF)
6. The RTS2 Web Interface (O. Lara-Gil) (PDF)
Posters for posters session C (Thursday 9 June):
1. S.A.I.N.T. - Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope for studying variability of cosmic objects (G. Beskin) (PDF)
2. All Sky Coordination Initiative - simple service for wide-field monitoring systems to cooperate in searching for fast optical transients (S. Karpov)(PDF)
3. BOOTES-3 Observatory (W. Allen) (PDF)
4. BOOTES-3: First two years of GRB follow-ups in New Zealand (J. C. Tello) (PDF)
5. Telescope Scheduling (Ph. Ambert) (PDF)
6. The SMA automated station for meteor research (B. Troughton)