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4 Conclusion and perspectives


  
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\vspace*{-4mm}\end{figure} Figure 1: SN 1998aq and its host galaxy, NGC 3982. The image was taken in June 1998, when the supernovae was at V magnitude 14

Figure 1 displays an image of SN 1998aq seen over the background of its host galaxy NGC 3982 when it was at mV = 14. This image is typical of the capabilities of TAROT to detect an object even in high background conditions. The next major step of TAROT-1 will be the implementation of new routines for the recognition of objects, on the data processing side, and of the new camera on the instrument side. As soon as this detector will be in service, we will perform a survey of the accessible sky, in order to build a reference database, which will be used to search for new or variable objects. At present we are validating our data processing routines, in order to provide an automated alert service to selected parties. We study also a new, enhanced version of the MAJORDOME.


Acknowledgements

The TAROT-1 project is funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers, on the French side, and by the Carlsberg Fundation on the Danish side. The authors are also very grateful to Dr. S. Barthelmy, who initiated and maintains the GRB Coordinate Network, a system used extensively by TAROT-1. Thanks are also due to Prof. B. Paczynsky for stimulating discussions on the observation of GRBs at optical wavelengths.



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