Progress of Antarctic survey telescopes

Xiangyan Yuan; Shihai Yang; Bozhong Gu; Xiaoyan Li; Fujjia Du; Zhengyang Li; Haikun Wen; Haiping Lu; Lingzhe Xu; Ru Zhang; Yi Zhang; Xiangqun Cui; Lifan Wang; Zhaohui Shang; Ce Yu; Bin Ma; Yi Hu

doi:10.1117/12.2232282

27 July 2016 Progress of Antarctic survey telescopes

Xiangyan Yuan, Shihai Yang, Bozhong Gu, Xiaoyan Li, Fujjia Du, Zhengyang Li, Haikun Wen, Haiping Lu, Lingzhe Xu, Ru Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiangqun Cui, Lifan Wang, Zhaohui Shang, Ce Yu, Bin Ma, Yi Hu

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Proceedings Volume 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI; 99061O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232282
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Antarctic Survey Telescope-AST3 consists of three optical telescopes with 680mm primary mirror and 8 square degree field of view, mainly for observations of supernovas and extrasolar planets searching from Antarctic Dome A. The first two AST3 telescopes (AST3-1 and AST3-2) were successfully installed on Dome A by Chinese expedition team in Jan. 2012 and Jan. 2015 separately. Multi-anti-frost methods were designed for AST3-2 and the automatic observations are keeping on from March 2016. The best limited magnitude is 19.4m with exposure time 60s in G band. The third AST3 will have switchable interface for both optical camera and near infrared camera optimized for k dark band survey. Now the telescope is under development in NIAOT and the K-band camera is under development in AAO.

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Xiangyan Yuan, Shihai Yang, Bozhong Gu, Xiaoyan Li, Fujjia Du, Zhengyang Li, Haikun Wen, Haiping Lu, Lingzhe Xu, Ru Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiangqun Cui, Lifan Wang, Zhaohui Shang, Ce Yu, Bin Ma, and Yi Hu "Progress of Antarctic survey telescopes", Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, 99061O (27 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232282

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