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

• 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; Concordia Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11391/993203; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MSAIS.2.82T

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...