Proposed instrumentation for PILOT
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Saunders, Will; Gillingham, Peter; McGrath, Andrew; Haynes, Roger; Storey, John W; Lawrence , Jonathan Simon; Burton, Michael Graham; Jenkins, Charles; Mora, Alcione
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PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed Australian/European optical/infrared telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light in 2012. The proposed telescope is 2.4m diameter, with overall focal ratio f/10, and a 1 degree field-of-view. In median seeing conditions, it delivers 0.3" FWHM widefield image quality, from 0.7-2.5 microns. In the best quartile of conditions, it delivers diffraction-limited imaging down to 1 micron, or...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Saunders, Will | |
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dc.contributor.author | Gillingham, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | McGrath, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.author | Haynes, Roger | |
dc.contributor.author | Storey, John W | |
dc.contributor.author | Lawrence , Jonathan Simon | |
dc.contributor.author | Burton, Michael Graham | |
dc.contributor.author | Jenkins, Charles | |
dc.contributor.author | Mora, Alcione | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T22:11:26Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1017-2653 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/29789 | |
dc.description.abstract | PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed Australian/European optical/infrared telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light in 2012. The proposed telescope is 2.4m diameter, with overall focal ratio f/10, and a 1 degree field-of-view. In median seeing conditions, it delivers 0.3" FWHM widefield image quality, from 0.7-2.5 microns. In the best quartile of conditions, it delivers diffraction-limited imaging down to 1 micron, or even less with lucky imaging. The areas where PILOT offers the greatest advantages over existing ground-based telescopes are (a) very high resolution optical imaging, (b) high resolution wide-field optical imaging, and (c) all wide-field thermal infrared imaging. The proposed first generation instrumentation consists of (a) a fast, lownoise camera for diffraction-limited optical lucky imaging; (b) a gigapixel optical camera for seeing-limited imaging over a 1 degree field; (c) a 4K × 4K near-infrared (1-5 micron) camera with both wide-field and diffraction-limited modes; and (d) a double-beamed mid-infrared (7-40 micron) imaging spectrograph. | |
dc.publisher | SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering | |
dc.source | International Society for Optical Engineering Proceedings Series | |
dc.subject | Keywords: Antarctica; Fast guiding; Infrared; Instrumentation; Optical; Tip-tilt; Wide-field; Astronomical satellites; Astrophysics; Cameras; Diffraction; Image quality; Infrared devices; Instruments; Light; Optical image storage; Optical telescopes; Spacecraft obs Antarctica; Fast guiding; Infrared; Instrumentation; Optical; Tip-tilt; Wide-field | |
dc.title | Proposed instrumentation for PILOT | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 7014 | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 020102 - Astronomical and Space Instrumentation | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u4362859xPUB68 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Saunders, Will, Anglo-Australian Observatory | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Gillingham, Peter, Anglo-Australian Observatory | |
local.contributor.affiliation | McGrath, Andrew, Anglo-Australian Observatory | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Haynes, Roger, Anglo-Australian Observatory | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Storey, John W, University of New South Wales | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Lawrence , Jonathan Simon, University of New South Wales | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Burton, Michael Graham, University of New South Wales | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Jenkins, Charles, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Mora, Alcione, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 9 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1117/12.788858 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-02-24T11:06:16Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-66249094582 | |
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