IRAIT: a Telescope for Infrared Astronomy from Antarctica

• 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

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,...