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Rapid Eye Mount Telescope

(REM)
(quick-action robotic telescope at La Silla Observatory)

The Rapid Eye Mount Telescope (REM) is a 60-cm reflector telescope at La Silla Observatory with the purpose of catching the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). To accomplish this, it is automated and designed to slew and aim quickly, and begin taking data within seconds of the report of a GRB. It began operation in 2002. Instruments:

(telescope,reflector)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Eye_Mount_telescope
http://www.rem.inaf.it/
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/rem/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MmSAI..74..304A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ASPC..277..449C/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203034

Referenced by page:
La Silla Observatory (LSO)
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