IRAIT: a Telescope for Infrared Astronomy from Antarctica

We present the status of the project IRAIT (the Italian Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope), that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italo-French Concordia station on the Antarctic Plateau. We review the main scientific motivations of the effort, and describe the main characteristics of the telecope,...

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Main Authors: TOSTI, Gino, BUSSO, Maurizio Maria, S. Ciprini, P. Persi, M. Ferrari Toniolo, L. Corcione
Other Authors: Tosti, Gino, Busso, Maurizio Maria, S., Ciprini, P., Persi, M., Ferrari Toniolo, L., Corcione
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Antarctica
infrared:general
telescope
survey
stars:formation
ism:clouds
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Concordia Station
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11391/993208
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MmSAI.74.37T
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Summary:We present the status of the project IRAIT (the Italian Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope), that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italo-French Concordia station on the Antarctic Plateau. We review the main scientific motivations of the effort, and describe the main characteristics of the telecope, which has been completed and is now under test at the Coloti-Montone site, operated by the University of Perugia, and its focal plane instrumentation.

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