MORISOT: enabling fully robotic spectroscopy at the MONET/South Telescope

L. Meerwart; T.-O. Husser; S. Schäfer; L. Schmidt; F. V. Hessman; M. Weber

doi:10.1117/12.3018781

18 July 2024 MORISOT: enabling fully robotic spectroscopy at the MONET/South Telescope

L. Meerwart, T.-O. Husser, S. Schäfer, L. Schmidt, F. V. Hessman, M. Weber

Proceedings Volume 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X; 1309634 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018781
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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Abstract

MORISOT (MOnet Robotic Instrument for Spectroscopy Of Transients) is a low-resolution optical spectrograph installed at our 1.2 m robotic telescope MONET/South located at SAAO. The installation of the newly designed frontend at the telescope enabled the commissioning of MORISOT in December 2023. With this frontend, MORISOT will be able to run fully robotically by using the main camera of the telescope for simultaneous guiding. Moreover, a second 25-cm-telescope, mounted at MONET/South, can be used to simultaneously perform photometric observations of the spectroscopically observed objects. The fully robotic operations will be handled by our observatory control system pyobs, which already runs our robotic telescopes for photometric observations and will be extended to handle all the operations (guiding, spectroscopy and photometry) at once. First use cases will be a high-cadence survey of changing-look AGN and a survey of transiting exoplanets.

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L. Meerwart, T.-O. Husser, S. Schäfer, L. Schmidt, F. V. Hessman, and M. Weber "MORISOT: enabling fully robotic spectroscopy at the MONET/South Telescope", Proc. SPIE 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 1309634 (18 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018781

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