12月8日：Unveiling the Dynamic Infrared Sky with Gattini-IR
报告题目: Unveiling the Dynamic Infrared Sky with Gattini-IR
报 告 人：Anna Moore
报告时间: 2016年12月8日（星期四）下午14:00
报告地点：南京天光所办公楼二楼报告厅
Abstract
The infrared is a powerful tool for probing transient events in dusty regions that have high optical extinction, and for detecting the coolest of stars that are bright only at these wavelengths. The fundamental roadblocks in studying the infrared time-domain have been the overwhelmingly bright sky background and the narrow field-of-view of infrared cameras. To begin to address these challenges and open a new observational window in the infrared, we present Palomar Gattini-IR at Palomar Observatory that surveys the entire accessible sky to a depth of 16.4 AB mag every night. We anticipate the potential for otherwise infeasible discoveries. With dedicated hardware in hand, and a F/1.44 telescope available commercially and cost-effectively, Gattini-IR will be on-sky in early 2017 and will survey the entire accessible sky every night for two years. Gattini-IR will pave the way for a dual hemisphere, infrared-optimized, ultra-wide field high cadence machine called Turbo Gattini-IR. To take advantage of the low sky background at 2. 5 um, two identical systems will be located at the polar sites of the South Pole, Antarctica and near Eureka on Ellesmere Island, Canada.
Anna Moore
A Research Astronomer and astronomical instrument builder at Caltech with over 15 years’ experience in the design and construction of optical/IR telescopes and associated instruments. She is co-Principal Investigator of the Infrared Imaging Spectrograph for TMT. She is Principal Investigator of the Gattini Network. She is co-proposer of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager. She is co-PI of the Gattini-IR project that will open up the wide field dynamical infrared Universe as of early 2017 at Palomar. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Astronomical Instrumentation by World Scientific Press, and has served on a diverse range of panels and committees including NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
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