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News List
2017
Dec 20, 2017
Ground-breaking ceremony was held at the summit of Co. Chajnantor |
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Ground-breaking ceremony was held at the summit of Co. Chajnantor on December 20.
Understanding and cooperation by local people are essential for the
construction. The ceremony was conducted according to
local style; including words of prayer and offering alcohol.
With this ceremony, construction on the
summit will start in name and reality.
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Nov 22, 2017
The first stone ceremony of TAO6.5m telescope was held in Chile |
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On Nov. 22, 2017, just before the site construction, first stone
ceremony of TAO 6.5-m telescope was held in Chile. There were 80 participants to the ceremony from
domestic and overseas. We received many greetings of welcome and
celebration from many people including Dr. Mario Hamuy (President of CONICYT) and Mr. Yoshinobu Hayashi(Ambassador of Japan to Chile).
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Oct 11, 2017
Mid-infrared camera MIMIZUKU transported to Hawaii |
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Mid-infrared camera MIMIZUKU which will be equipped to TAO 6.5-m
telescope has finished its development in Mitaka and shipped to Hawaii
for the engineering observation at the Subaru
telescope in NAOJ Hawaii Observatory.
The transport completed in October 11, 2017. The expected performance
was confirmed through laboratory experiments.
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Sep 15, 2017
Delegation of the House of Representatives of Japan visited the base facility and the summit site of TAO |
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On September 15, 2017, the delegation of the House of
Representatives of Japan, who were visiting Chile for celebrating 120th anniversary of
establishment of diplomaticrelations with Japan, visited the base facility and the summit site.
The members of TAO including Dr. Yoshii, PI of TAO, accompanied explaining the schedules and expected scientific outputs.
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Jul 21, 2017
Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph, SWIMS, heading to Hawaii |
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The Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph for the TAO 6.5-m
telescope, SWIMS, has started to be transported to Hawaii, after all
development has been completed, for performing engineering
observations on the Subaru telescope, NAOJ.
As the first component, the cryostat was shipped from the IoA campus
at Mitaka on July 5th 2017, and then transported to Hawaii on July 21st.
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Mar 31, 2017
Two graduate students received masterfs degree related to the development of instrument for the TAO telescope! |
| Two graduate students from the Department of Astronomy, the University of Tokyo, Yasunori Terao and Kiyoshi Mori, successfully completed their masterfs degrees. They served as key development members of the 1st-generation instruments for the TAO 6.5m telescope "Near-infrared multi-object spectrograph SWIMS" and "Mid-infrared Multi-mode Imager MIMIZUKU"...
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