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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2011
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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 |
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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