LAPCAT: The Large Antarctic Plateau Clear-Aperture Telescope

• Main Authors: Storey, John, Lawrence, Jonathan, Ashley, Michael, Burton, Michael, Angel, Roger, Hinz, Phil
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: SPIE 2006
• Subjects: Optical telescopes; Infrared radiation; Diffraction; Reflection; Atmospheric turbulence; Velocity measurement; Adaptive optics; Antarctic; Dewar; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38528; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/ae731472-de90-4c76-a4d1-e666574e6e0f/download; https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/392

We present a proposal for an 8.4 metre off-axis optical/IR telescope to be located at Dome C, Antarctica. LAPCAT will use a mirror identical to the offset segment recently cast for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) as a completely unobscured f/2.1 primary. With a cooled deformable Gregorian seconda...