IRAIT project: future mid-IR operations at Dome C during summer

The project IRAIT consists of a robotic mid-infrared telescope that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italian-French Concordia station on the Antarctic Plateau. The telescope was built in collaboration with the PNRA (sectors Technology and Earth-Sun Interaction and Astrophysics). Its focal plane instr...

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Main Authors: TOSTI, Gino, BUSSO, Maurizio Maria, I. Collaboration
Other Authors: Tosti, Gino, Busso, Maurizio Maria, I., Collaboration
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Antarctica
infrared:general
telescope
site testing
survey
infrared: stars
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Concordia Station
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11391/993203
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MSAIS.2.82T
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Summary:The project IRAIT consists of a robotic mid-infrared telescope that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italian-French Concordia station on the Antarctic Plateau. The telescope was built in collaboration with the PNRA (sectors Technology and Earth-Sun Interaction and Astrophysics). Its focal plane instrumentation is a mid-infrared Camera (5-25 mu m), based on the TIRCAM II prototype, which is the result of a join effort between Institutes of CNR and INAF. International collaborations with French and Spanish Institutes for the construction of a near infrared spectrographic camera have also been started. We present the status of the project and the ongoing developments that will make possible to start infrared observations at Dome C during the summer Antarctic campaign 2005-2006.

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