Design and Performance of the Douglas Mawson Telescope
The Douglas Mawson Telescope (DMT) is a proposed 2 m telescope to be situated on the Antarctic plateau. The proposal comes from Australia, and invites participation by other nations, especially those already active in Antarctic astronomy; such as Italy, France and the United States. The DMT will be...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.147.5241 2023-05-15T14:04:16+02:00 Design and Performance of the Douglas Mawson Telescope Jon S. Lawrence Michael C. B. Ashley Michael G. Burton John W. V. Storey The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.147.5241 http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/a47.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.147.5241 http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/a47.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/a47.pdf astronomical optics atmospheric turbulence site testing Antarctic astronomy adaptive optics text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:10:47Z The Douglas Mawson Telescope (DMT) is a proposed 2 m telescope to be situated on the Antarctic plateau. The proposal comes from Australia, and invites participation by other nations, especially those already active in Antarctic astronomy; such as Italy, France and the United States. The DMT will be equipped with instrumentation to perform wide-field imaging from the near to far infrared. Results from an extensive site testing campaign over the last decade indicates that an Antarctic infrared telescope can be one to two orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other ground based telescope of the same size. The DMT will be an important tool for astrophysical research. It will also be beneficial as a technological test bed for future large (8-10 m class) Antarctic telescopes and interferometers, and for space-based telescopes. This paper analyses the performance of the DMT in terms of the achievable resolution, field-ofview, sensitivity and survey depth and compares it to a similar sized telescope located with the characteristic midlatitude atmosphere of Mauna Kea. Text Antarc* Antarctic Unknown Antarctic The Antarctic |
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The Douglas Mawson Telescope (DMT) is a proposed 2 m telescope to be situated on the Antarctic plateau. The proposal comes from Australia, and invites participation by other nations, especially those already active in Antarctic astronomy; such as Italy, France and the United States. The DMT will be equipped with instrumentation to perform wide-field imaging from the near to far infrared. Results from an extensive site testing campaign over the last decade indicates that an Antarctic infrared telescope can be one to two orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other ground based telescope of the same size. The DMT will be an important tool for astrophysical research. It will also be beneficial as a technological test bed for future large (8-10 m class) Antarctic telescopes and interferometers, and for space-based telescopes. This paper analyses the performance of the DMT in terms of the achievable resolution, field-ofview, sensitivity and survey depth and compares it to a similar sized telescope located with the characteristic midlatitude atmosphere of Mauna Kea. |
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