RAPTOR

RAPTOR (for Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response) is an array of six optical telescopes at Fenton Hill Observatory (FHO) in New Mexico, operated by computer searching for and following up on optical transients. The computer system sifts for transients of possible interest and signals the system to zoom in. The array is designed to discover and follow up on any short-duration optical flash within its field of view, but it is motivated by the notion that such a flash could later found to be coincident with a recorded gamma-ray burst (GRB), which could assist the study of GRBs and their progenitors.