MITSuME---Multicolor Imaging Telescopes for Survey and Monstrous Explosions
Abstract
Development of MITSuME is reported. Two 50-cm optical telescopes have been built at Akeno in Yamanashi prefecture and at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) in Okayama prefecture. Three CCD cameras for simultaneous g'R C I C photometry are to be mounted on each focal plane, covering a wide FOV of about 30”×30”. The limiting magnitude at V is fainter than 18. In addition to these two optical telescopes, a 91-cm IR telescope with a 1°×1° field of view is being built at OAO, which performs photometry in YJHK bands. These robotic telescopes can start the observation of counterparts of a GRB within a minute from an alert. We aim to obtain photometric redshifts exceeding 10 with these telescopes. The performance and the current construction status of the telescopes are presented.
- Publication:
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Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C
- Pub Date:
- July 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1393/ncc/i2005-10190-5
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0702708
- Bibcode:
- 2005NCimC..28..755K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures, 4th Workshop on Gamma-Ray Burst in the Afterglow Era, Roma, October 18-22, 2004