June 2008: International meeting SPIE2008

TAO member participated in the international conference “SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008” held in Marseilles, France on July 23-28, 2008, and made eight presentations including the overview of the miniTAO 1m telescope, the weather conditions of the site, and the instruments of the telescope as followings.

fig1: Palais des Congres Parc Chanot, Paris

• The University of Tokyo Atacama 1.0-m telescope
  Reviewed the details of the Tokyo Atacama 1.0-m telescope (miniTAO) (Shigeyuki Sako)
• Site evaluations of the summit of Co. Chajnantor for infrared observations
  Reported the weather conditions of the Chajnantor site (Takashi Miyata）
• Seeing environment at a 5640m altitude of Co. Chajnantor in northern Chile
  Reported the results of seeing measurements at the Chajnantor site(Kentaro Motohara）
• ANIR: Atacama Near Infrared Camera for Paschen αImaging
  Reported the near infrared camera ANIR for miniTAO 1m telescope (Kentaro Motohara)
• A new mid-infrared camera for ground-based 30 micron observations: MAX38
  Reported the mid infrared camera MAX38 for the miniTAO 1m telescope (Takashi Miyata）
• Cold chopper system for mid-infrared instruments
  Reported the development of the cold chopping mirror installed in the MAX38 (Tomohiko Nakamura）
• Developing metal mesh filters for mid-infrared astronomy of 25 to 40 micron
  Reported the development of multi layered metal mesh filters optimized for 25 to 40 micron (Shigeyuki Sako）
• Developing infrared array controller with software real time operating system
  Reported the newly developed array control system with real time OS (Shigeyuki Sako）

fig2: A poster presentation of the miniTAO telescope (Sako et al.)

Details of the presentation can be seen in the following page
http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/TAO/paper_presentation/paper_e.html