Building the BOOTES world-wide Network of Robotic telescopes

A. J. Castro-Tirado1*, M. Jelínek1, J. Gorosabel1, P. Kubánek1,2, R. Cunniffe1, S. Guziy1,3, O. Lara-Gil1, O. Rabaza-Castillo1, A. de Ugarte Postigo1, R. Sánchez-Ramírez1, J. C. Tello1, V. Mu˜noz-Martínez4, C. Pérez del Pulgar4, S. Castillo-Carrión5, J. M. Castro Cerón6, T. de J. Mateo Sanguino7, R. Hudec8, S. Vitek9, B. A. de la Morena Carretero10, J. A. Díaz Andreu10, R. Fernández-Mu˜noz11, D. Pérez-Ramírez12, P. A. Yock13, W. H. Allen14, I. Bond15, G. Christie16, L. Sabau-Graziati17, A. Castro18, A. Pozanenko19, J. Bai20, Y. Fan20, and C. Cui21
1Instituto de Astrofíisica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain
2Image Processing Laboratory, Univ. de Valencia, Burjassot (Valencia), Spain
3Mykolaiv National University, Nikolskaya 24, 54030 Nikolaev, Ukraine
4Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Univ. de Málaga, Spain
5Servicio Central de Informática, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
6European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Villafranca del Castillo (Madrid), Spain
7Departamento de Ingeniera de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de Huelva, E.P.S. de La Rábida (Huelva), Spain
8Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 251 65 Ondrejov, Czech Republic
9Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Dep. of Radioelectronics, 166 27 Praga, Czech Republic
10Estación de Sondeos Atmosféricos (ESAt) de El Arenosillo (CEDEA-INTA), Mazagón, Huelva, Spain
11Estacin Experimental de La Mayora, (EELM-CSIC), Algarrobo Costa (Málaga), Spain
12Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, Spain
13University of Auckland, New Zealand
14Vintage Lane Observatory, Blenheim, New Zealand
15Massey University, New Zealand
16Stardome Observatory, Auckland, New Zealand
17Divisi´n de Ciencias del Espacio (INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), Spain
18Sociedad Malague˜na de Astronomía, Málaga, Spain
19Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
20Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, CAS Kunming 650011, Yunnan, China
21National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China

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Abstract

We show the status of the BOOTES Network, which is expanding worldwide with four autonomous robotic observatories already deployed in Spain, New Zealand and China. We briefly discuss the technical as well as the scientific aspects we have already achieved and the goals we are aiming at.

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Keywords : gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, multiwavelength astronomy