Abstract
The Rapid Eye Mount (REM) is a 60 cm robotic telescope located at La Silla, Chile. Its Observing Software (REMOS) is constituted by a set of distributed intercommunicating processes organized around a central manager. Together they grant the system safety, automatically schedule and perform observations with two simultaneous cameras of user‐defined targets, and drive fast reaction to satellite alerts. Subsequent data reduction is left to pipelines managed by each camera.
Highlights
The discovery in the last decades of astrophysical processes which develop on timescales of few seconds to few minutes has given rise to the necessity of instruments capable of collecting as much information as possible on those timescales
The Rapid Eye Mount (REM) is a 60 cm robotic telescope located at La Silla, Chile
The scientific needs of rapid response to astrophysical processes have obtained one of the required tools, that is, robotic telescopes which can manage to acquire photons coming from a precedent unknown source position in a completely unattended way
Summary
The discovery in the last decades of astrophysical processes which develop on timescales of few seconds to few minutes has given rise to the necessity of instruments capable of collecting as much information as possible on those timescales. The scientific needs of rapid response to astrophysical processes have obtained one of the required tools, that is, robotic telescopes which can manage to acquire photons coming from a precedent unknown source position in a completely unattended way. The Rapid Eye Mount (hereafter REM) telescope is one of the main robotic telescopes dedicated to the study of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) afterglow. The system has already been described in [1,2,3]. The section describes all the strategies implemented in the software, while Sections 5 to 12 report on the technical implementation issues
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