Open AccessTHE CHANGING EVENT SURVEY: TRANSIENTS, SPACE DEBRIS & NEOs
Author(s) -
Tianrui Sun,
C. Zhang,
Yiding Ping,
Xinming Wu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica. serie de conferencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1405-2059
DOI - 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.34
Subject(s) - physics , ligo , astronomy , gravitational wave , event (particle physics) , telescope , supernova , fermi gamma ray space telescope , radio telescope , aperture (computer memory) , astrophysics , acoustics
Motivated by the promising era of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy, CHanging Event Survey (CHES) is designed to join the ongoing campaign with a powerful wide-field optical telescope array. CHES project aims to monitor the transient universe, including gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational waves events (kilonova), supernova, variable stars, near-earth objects, and space debris. The array consists of 12 individual wide field refractors with aperture 280 mm, covering 600 square degrees in total. In the same project, two 800 mm prime focus telescopes can be triggered for follow-up observation. Furthermore, CHES can effectively monitor 300 square deg in a dual band simultaneously, which enable the array to do candidate identification and follow-up for the triggers from LIGO/Virgo collaboration, Fermi, Swift, GECam and SVOM satellites.