The project IRAIT consists of a robotic mid-infrared telescope that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italian-French Concordia station on the Antarctic Plateau. The telescope was built in collaboration with the PNRA (sectors Technology and Earth-Sun Interaction and Astrophysics). Its focal plane instrumentation is a mid-infrared Camera (5-25 mu m), based on the TIRCAM II prototype, which is the result of a join effort between Institutes of CNR and INAF. International collaborations with French and Spanish Institutes for the construction of a near infrared spectrographic camera have also been started. We present the status of the project and the ongoing developments that will make possible to start infrared observations at Dome C during the summer Antarctic campaign 2005-2006.
IRAIT project: future mid-IR operations at Dome C during summer
TOSTI, Gino;BUSSO, Maurizio Maria;
2003
Abstract
The project IRAIT consists of a robotic mid-infrared telescope that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italian-French Concordia station on the Antarctic Plateau. The telescope was built in collaboration with the PNRA (sectors Technology and Earth-Sun Interaction and Astrophysics). Its focal plane instrumentation is a mid-infrared Camera (5-25 mu m), based on the TIRCAM II prototype, which is the result of a join effort between Institutes of CNR and INAF. International collaborations with French and Spanish Institutes for the construction of a near infrared spectrographic camera have also been started. We present the status of the project and the ongoing developments that will make possible to start infrared observations at Dome C during the summer Antarctic campaign 2005-2006.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
