The IRAIT project: Infrared astronomy from Antarctica
The Antarctica Plateau has recently turned out to be the best place on the Earth to perform astronomical infrared observations in the 2-20 um atmospheric windows and beyond, thanks to the extremely low sky background emission, the excellent atmospheric transparency and stability, the virtual absence...
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ftunivteramo:oai:research.unite.it:11575/92717 2024-02-27T08:33:18+00:00 The IRAIT project: Infrared astronomy from Antarctica Tosti, Gino Busso, Maurizio Straniero, Oscar Abia, Carlos Bagaglia, Marco Dolci, Mauro Corcione, Leonardo Nucciarelli, Giuliano Roncella, Fabio Valentini, Gaetano Varano, Igor Di PELUSI, DANILO SPIE Oschmann, Jr., Jacobus M. Tosti, Gino Busso, Maurizio Straniero, Oscar Abia, Carlo Bagaglia, Marco Dolci, Mauro Corcione, Leonardo Nucciarelli, Giuliano Roncella, Fabio Valentini, Gaetano Varano, Igor Di Pelusi, Danilo 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/11575/92717 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551162 eng eng ispartofbook:Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering volume:5489 issue:PART 2 firstpage:742 lastpage:753 numberofpages:12 alleditors:Oschmann, Jr., Jacobus M. http://hdl.handle.net/11575/92717 doi:10.1117/12.551162 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-10444275547 Infrared camera Instrumentation Robotic telescope Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2004 ftunivteramo https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551162 2024-01-31T17:33:18Z The Antarctica Plateau has recently turned out to be the best place on the Earth to perform astronomical infrared observations in the 2-20 um atmospheric windows and beyond, thanks to the extremely low sky background emission, the excellent atmospheric transparency and stability, the virtual absence of winds and the possibility of passively cooling the telescope and its focal plane instruments down to very low temperatures. Dome C, a site jointly exploited by Italian and French scientific teams in the framework of the Concordia project, lays on the Antarctica Plateau at an altitude of 3200m and presents exceptionally cold and dry climatic conditions. In this paper we shall describe the scientific motivations and the technical details of the infrared telescope IRAIT that we plan to put at Dome C starting from in 2005-2006. The IRAIT telescope is an alt-azimuth f/20 reflector, with a 0.8m parabolic primary mirror and a wobbling secondary mirror suitable for the specific techniques of IR observations. It will be equipped with a Near/Mid IR-camera built in Italy. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica IRIS Universita degli Studi di Teramo SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based Telescopes 5489 742 |
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The Antarctica Plateau has recently turned out to be the best place on the Earth to perform astronomical infrared observations in the 2-20 um atmospheric windows and beyond, thanks to the extremely low sky background emission, the excellent atmospheric transparency and stability, the virtual absence of winds and the possibility of passively cooling the telescope and its focal plane instruments down to very low temperatures. Dome C, a site jointly exploited by Italian and French scientific teams in the framework of the Concordia project, lays on the Antarctica Plateau at an altitude of 3200m and presents exceptionally cold and dry climatic conditions. In this paper we shall describe the scientific motivations and the technical details of the infrared telescope IRAIT that we plan to put at Dome C starting from in 2005-2006. The IRAIT telescope is an alt-azimuth f/20 reflector, with a 0.8m parabolic primary mirror and a wobbling secondary mirror suitable for the specific techniques of IR observations. It will be equipped with a Near/Mid IR-camera built in Italy. |
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SPIE Oschmann, Jr., Jacobus M. Tosti, Gino Busso, Maurizio Straniero, Oscar Abia, Carlo Bagaglia, Marco Dolci, Mauro Corcione, Leonardo Nucciarelli, Giuliano Roncella, Fabio Valentini, Gaetano Varano, Igor Di Pelusi, Danilo |
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Tosti, Gino Busso, Maurizio Straniero, Oscar Abia, Carlos Bagaglia, Marco Dolci, Mauro Corcione, Leonardo Nucciarelli, Giuliano Roncella, Fabio Valentini, Gaetano Varano, Igor Di PELUSI, DANILO |
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Tosti, Gino Busso, Maurizio Straniero, Oscar Abia, Carlos Bagaglia, Marco Dolci, Mauro Corcione, Leonardo Nucciarelli, Giuliano Roncella, Fabio Valentini, Gaetano Varano, Igor Di PELUSI, DANILO |
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