A PROJECT FOR AN INFRARED SYNOPTIC SURVEY FROM ANTARCTICA WITH THE POLAR LARGE TELESCOPE (PLT)

Abstract. The Polar Large Telescope (PLT) aims at performing a new generation of astronomical Infrared Synoptic Survey from Antarctica (ISSA). It would carry out for the first time large scale periodic imaging surveys at ∼ 0.3 ′′ angular resolution in the short thermal infrared (2-5 µm) range benefi...

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Main Authors: G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, R. Samadi, D. Valls-gabaud (eds, N. Epchtein, L. Abe, W. Ansorge, M. Langlois, I. Vauglin, S. Argentini, I. Esau, C. David, I. Bryson, G. Dalton, M. C. B. Ashley, J. S. Lawrence
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Infrared Surveys
Telescope
Antarctic Astronomy 1 An Infrared Synoptic Survey from Antarctica Large scale astronomical surveys i
IRAS
2MASS
DENIS
UKIDSS
Spitzer
VISTA
Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.412.7039
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/pubs/epc12.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. The Polar Large Telescope (PLT) aims at performing a new generation of astronomical Infrared Synoptic Survey from Antarctica (ISSA). It would carry out for the first time large scale periodic imaging surveys at ∼ 0.3 ′′ angular resolution in the short thermal infrared (2-5 µm) range benefiting from the extremely dry, cold, and stable polar atmosphere. The PLT consists of a 2.5m class telescope equipped with a 250–Mpixel infrared camera. The survey would produce diffraction limited images at 2 µm covering a total of ∼ 5000 square degrees, explore the time domain from seconds to years down to mAB=25.5 in Kd, generate alerts of transients and react quickly to alerts from other ground based or space borne facilities. Keywords:

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