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After the Storm
illustratorThe Mediterranean region has faced a significant number of challenges that have stemmed from turbulent events taking place on its Southern shores: conflicts and instability, the migration crisis, disruptions of regional value chains, souring regional relations, and foreign power interferences that have severely affected the region. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the Southern Mediterranean, but the health crisis had ambiguous effects on the underlying economic, social, and political trends of the region. It has exposed and exacerbated much of the previous sources of tension and, obscured many of them as public attention moved towards facing the public health emergency. Will the Covid-19 pandemic spur governments and civil societies to action? Or will it just serve as another smokescreen behind which to hide the regionβs longstanding problems
MASTER prompt and follow-up GRB observations
There are the results of gamma-ray bursts observations obtained using the
MASTER robotic telescope in 2007 - 2009. We observed 20 error-boxes of
gamma-ray bursts this period.The limits on their optical brightnesses have been
derived. There are 5 prompt observations among them, obtained at our very wide
field cameras. Also we present the results of the earliest observations of the
optical emission of the gamma-ray bursts GRB 050824 and GRB 060926.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Master Robotic Net
The main goal of the MASTER-Net project is to produce a unique fast sky
survey with all sky observed over a single night down to a limiting magnitude
of 19 - 20mag. Such a survey will make it possible to address a number of
fundamental problems: search for dark energy via the discovery and photometry
of supernovas (including SNIa), search for exoplanets, microlensing effects,
discovery of minor bodies in the Solar System and space-junk monitoring. All
MASTER telescopes can be guided by alerts, and we plan to observe prompt
optical emission from gamma-ray bursts synchronously in several filters and in
several polarization planes.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Transient detections and other real-time data processing from wide-field chambers MASTER-VWF
At present time Robotic observatory making is of current importance. Having a
large field of view and being able to point at anywhere, Robotic astronomical
systems are indispensable when they looking for transients like grb, supernovae
explosions, novae etc, as it's impossible in these cases to foresee what you
should point you telescope at and when. In work are described prompt GRB
observations received on wide-field chambers MASTER-VWF, and also methods of
the images analysis and transients classifications applied in real-time data
processing in this experiment. For 7 months of operation 6 synchronous
observations of gamma-ray burst had been made by MASTER VWF in Kislovodsk and
Irkutsk. In all cases a high upper limits have been received (see tabl \ref
{tab_grbwf} and fig. \ref {allgrb}).Comment: 21 pages, 21 figure, 2 tables, Advances in Astronomy in pres