The International Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope (IRAIT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tosti, Gino ^a   Busso, Maurizio ^a   Nucciarelli, Giuliano ^a   Bagaglia, Marco ^a   Roncella, Fabio ^a   Mancini, Alberto ^a   Castellini, Sonia ^a   Mariotti, Mirco ^a   Babucci, Ezio ^a   Chiocci, Gianfranco ^a   Straniero, Oscar ^b   Dolci, Mauro ^b   Valentini, Gaetano ^b   Di Varano, Igor ^b   Pelusi, Danilo ^b   Di Rico, Gianluca ^b   Ragni, Maurizio ^b   Abia, Carlos ^c   Dominguez, Inma ^c   Corcione, Leonardo ^d   Porcu, Francesco ^d   Conconi, Paolo ^e   De Caprio, Vincenzo ^e   Riva, Alverto ^e   Molinari, Emilio ^e   Zerbi, Filippo M ^e   Bortolette, Favio ^f   Bonoli, Carlotta ^f   D'Alessandro, Maurizio ^f   Colomé, Josep ^g   Isern, Jordi ^g   Briguglio, Runa ^h   Cacciani, Alessandro ^h   Farnesini, Lucio ⁱ   Checcucci, Bruno ⁱ   Strassmeier, Klaus G ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI COLLURANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^g INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

ⁱ INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

^j ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Automation; Dome C; Infrared; Robotic; Robotic Antarctica; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; AUTOMATION; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; POLARIZATION; ROBOTICS;

DOME C; ROBOTIC ANTARCTICA; THERMAL INFRARED OBSERVATIONS; WATER VAPOR;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749267040     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670302     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. M. Candidi, A. Lori, "Status of the Antarctic Base at Dome C and perspectives for Astrophysics", Memorie SAIt, 74, p. 29, 2003.
2. G. Tosti, Busso, M., Straniero, O., Abia, C., Bagaglia, M., Dolci, M., Corcione, L., Nucciarelli, G., Roncella, F., Valentini, G., Di Varano, I., Pelusi, D., 2004, "The IRAIT Project: infrared astronomy from Antartica", Proc. SPIE, 5489, 742
3. G. Tosti and the IRAIT team, "IRAIT: a telescope for Infrared Astronomy form Antartica", Memorie SAIt, 74, p. 37, 2003.
4. E. Aristidi, Agabi A., Vernin J., Azouit M., Martin F., Ziad A., Fossat E., ''Antarctic site testing: first daytime seeing monitoring at Dome C", 2003, A&A letters