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News List
2020
Jul 27, 2020
The 4th SWIMS Science WS - for SWIMS Open-use Operation as a PI-type Instrument on the Subaru Telescope - was held. |
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SWIMS, the Simultaneous-color Wide-field Infrared camera and Multi-object Spectrograph for the TAO Telescope, had successfully completed its commissioning observations on the Subaru Telescope from 2018 to 2019. After them, an official decision was made in July 2020 that the SWIMS was served as a PI-type open-use instrument at the Subaru ...
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Apr 15, 2020
Completion of manufacturing of coating chamber for the TAO 6.5m telescope |
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For infrared telescopes it needs to increase the reflectance and to reduce emissivity as much as possible, because infrared radiation emitted from the telescope itself interrupts the infrared radiation from universe and declines its detection limit. For this reason, telescopes need regular maintenance to remove surface contamination and to ...
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Mar 31, 2020
A graduate student got a master's degree related to the instrumentation for the TAO telescope! |
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Kushibiki, 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. We will introduce the results of...
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Jan 17, 2020
Optical performance test of the 6.5-m primary mirror has been completed |
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The large primary mirror of the TAO telescope, which collects the light from celestial objects, started production in September 2013 (*the contract date). It was manufactured by the Mirror Laboratory of the University of Arizona (the current official name is Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory), which has manufactured many primary mirrors ...
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