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News List
2019
Dec 26, 2019
MIMIZUKU: Preparing in Japan for Full-Scale Observations |
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MIMIZUKU, the mid-infrared instrument for the TAO 6.5m telescope has made its commissioning observation on the Subaru Telescope of NAOJ in Hawaii in 2018 (see here for more details). It was MIMIZUKU's first light, the initial observation of celestial bodies, and one of the milestones of our development ...
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Nov 30, 2019
Preparations of NICE (the first-light instrument for the TAO) are underway |
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NICE (Near-Infrared Cross dispersed Echelle spectrograph) is a NIR echelle spectrograph which was developed at the Institute of Astronomy (IoA), the University of Tokyo in 2000 (the PI: Prof. Masuo Tanaka) and will be equipped with the TAO 6.5m telescope as the first-light instrument. NICE uses the echelle grating and...
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Aug 27, 2019
International Workshop of Mid-iInfrared Observational Astronomy was held |
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Ground-based mid-infrared astronomical observations are entering a new era. COMICS, which has been in operation at Subaru Telescope since 2000, will be retired in 2020, while a new mid-infrared instrument, MIMIZUKU, has successfully completed its test observations, and its observations at the TAO telescope are approaching...
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May 20, 2019
Assembly Test of the TAO telescope enclosure has been completed |
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The TAO telescope is housed in a cylindrical building 25 meters in diameter and 24 meters high to protect precision instruments from the harsh natural environment at the summit of Co. Chajnantor, 5,640 meters above sea level.This building is called the enclosure (Fig. 1) . The TAO telescope is set 2.9 meters above the ground...
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Mar 31, 2019
A graduate student got a master's degree related to the instrumentation for the TAO telescope! |
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Kono, who belongs to the Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, and has worked as a main member of the development team of the instrument "Simultaneous-color Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph, SWIMS" for TAO 6.5m telescope, received a master's degree...
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