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Bootes \Bo*["o]"tes\ (b[-o]*[=o]"t[=e]z), n. [L. Bootes, Gr. bow`ths herdsman, fr. boy^s, gen. boo`s, ox, cow.] (Astron.) A northern constellation of stars near Ursa Major, containing the bright star Arcturus.
Wikipedia
Boötes is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from the Greek Βοώτης, Boōtēs, meaning herdsman or plowman (literally, ox-driver; from βοῦς bous “cow”). The "ö" in the name is a diaeresis, not an umlaut, meaning that each 'o' is to be pronounced separately.
One of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, Boötes is now one of the 88 modern constellations. It contains the fourth brightest star in the night sky, the orange-hued Arcturus. Boötes is home to many other bright stars, including eight above the fourth magnitude and an additional 21 above the fifth magnitude, making a total of 29 stars easily visible to the naked eye.
BOOTES, the Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System, is a network of astronomical observatories with sites in Southern Spain, New Zealand, China and Mexico (mostly 0.6m diameter telescope with EMCCD camera at the Cassegrain focus and a g'r'i'ZY filterset. The main goal of the network is to quickly observe transient events within few seconds/minutes of being detected by scientific satellites.
BOOTES provides an automated real time observing response to the detection of Gamma Ray Bursts GRBs. Error box size depending, it uses wide field cameras (WFC), ultra wide field cameras (UWFC) and narrow field cameras (NFC) attached to small robotic telescopes or the telescopes themselves.
To study GRBs it is of the utmost importance to perform prompt optical follow up observations, to detect longer wavelength transient emission associated to them. BOOTES can perform such follow ups. Its scientific objectives include:
• Simultaneous and quasi simultaneous observations of GRB error boxes.
• Detection of optical flashes of cosmic origin.
• All-Sky monitoring with the CASANDRA cameras down to 10th mag every 60 s.
• Monitoring of different types of variable objects (galactic or extragalactic) down to 20th mag in order to search for optical variabilitity.
• Discovery of comets, meteors, asteroids, variable stars, novae and supernovae.
BOOTES is part, within the framework of an international collaboration led by Spain, which started in order to support the ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL with ground-based observations. The project also was focused to perform rapid follow up observations of events detected by several spacecraft (BATSE, BeppoSAX, RossiXTE, IPN, Hete-2, Swift and Fermi). Results in the GRB field are multifold:
• Predetection images: they set up upper limits for any possible precursors.
• Simultaneous images: the first was achieved last 20 February 2001, although no counterpart was detected.
• Follow-up images: with several gamma-ray bursts being discovered or monitored starting several dozen of seconds after the onset of the event.
The modern constellation Boötes lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the The Azure Dragon of the East (東方青龍, Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng), and Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 牧夫座 (mù fū zuò), meaning "the shepherd constellation".
Usage examples of "bootes".
His theory is that the signals which had perplexed Stormer and Van der Pol in 1928 came from the double star system Epsilon Bootis - two hundred light-years away in the constellation of Bootes - the Herdsman.
As he first explained to me during an interview I did for the National Enquirer early in 1973: "To my astonishment, the resulting dots on the graph made up a map of an easily recognizable constellation of Bootes in the northern sky.
On the right the dots form an incomplete map of the constellation which Lunan interprets as Bootes.
Lunan claims that the sequence produces an incomplete map of the star constellation Bootes (the Herdsman).
This then completes the star constellation Bootes and also lets the probe know that we are sufficiently intelligent to transcribe its message.
Although Lunan does not produce a map or chart of the Bootes constellation from these echoes, he claims they form other star systems.
Moving the three-second echo-delay point to the thirteen-second spot does not give a true formation of the Bootes constellation.
The majority of traits drawn by Plutarch apply to her, in the same manner as those of Osiris apply to Bootes: also the seven principal stars of the she-bear, called David's chariot, were called the chariot of Osiris (See Kirker).
But foolish boy, what bootes thy seruice baceTo her, to whom the heauens do serue and sew?
He this same day, as I that way did comeWith a faire Damzell, my beloued deare,In execution of her lawlesse doome,Did set vppon vs flying both for feare:For little bootes against him hand to reare.
Join with me now in this my mean estate, (I call it mean, because, being yet obscure, The nations far-remov'd admire me not,) And when my name and honour shall be spread As far as Boreas claps his brazen wings, Or fair Bootes sends his cheerful light, Then shalt thou be competitor with me, And sit with Tamburlaine in all his majesty.
His bootes supple, his horse in great estate, Now certainly he was a fair prelate.
I knew where he would be, in Boötes, between Arcturus and Virgo—but I had to find Bootes, before I could look for Father Sol.
Arcturus had shifted a little and spoiled the club shape of Bootes but there was no doubt in my mind.