The IRAIT Project
M. Busso,
G. Tosti,
P. Persi,
M. Ferrari-Toniolo,
S. Ciprini,
L. Corcione,
F. Gasparoni and
M. Dabalá
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
19(3) 306 - 312
Published: 31 May 2002
Abstract
We present the status of the project IRAIT (the Italian Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italo-French Concordia station. We review the main scientific motivations of the effort, and describe the characteristics of the telescope, which has been completed and is now under test at the Coloti-Montone site operated by the University of Perugia. Then we describe the design of the mid-IR camera that is under construction, showing some examples of the applications on the basis of the twin instrument TIRCAMKeywords: infrared: general — telescopes — surveys — stars: formation — ISM: clouds: Magellanic Clouds — stars: AGB and post-AGB
https://doi.org/10.1071/AS01076
© ASA 2002
