The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope
Jean Surdej,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium, jsurdej@ulg.ac.be
Paul Hickson,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Ermanno Borra,
Department of Physics, Université Laval, 2325, rue de l’Université, Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6, Canada
Jean-Pierre Swings,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Serge Habraken,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Talat Akhunov,
National University of Uzbekistan, Physics Faculty, Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric physics, Tashkent, 100174, Uzbekistan and Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Astronomicheskaya 33, 100052, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Przemyslaw Bartczak,
Poznań Observatory, Adam Mickiewicz University, Sloneczna 36, 60-101 Poznań, Poland
Hum Chand,
Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)
Michaël De Becker,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Ludovic Delchambre,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Universitéde Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
François Finet,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 650 N. A’ohoku Place, Hilo, 96720 HI, USA
Brajesh Kumar,
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India
Anil Pandey,
Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)
Anna Pospieszalska,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Universitéde Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Bikram Pradhan,
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Universitéde Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Ram Sagar,
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India
Olivier Wertz,
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Auf dem Hügel 71, D-53121 Bonn 9, Germany
Peter De Cat,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Stefan Denis,
Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liège Science Park, rue des Chasseurs Ardennais 2, 4031 Angleur, Belgium
Jonathan de Ville,
Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liège Science Park, rue des Chasseurs Ardennais 2, 4031 Angleur, Belgium
Mukesh Kumar Jaiswar,
Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)
Patricia Lampens,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Nandish Nanjappa,
Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)
Jean-Marc Tortolani,
Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liège Science Park, rue des Chasseurs Ardennais 2, 4031 Angleur, Belgium
Abstract
The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is presently (March-June 2017) being erected on the ARIES site in Devasthal (Uttarakhand). We describe and illustrate in the present paper its different components. The ILMT will be used in the Time Delayed Integration (TDI) mode to carry out a deep survey and high S/N photometric and astrometric observations of solar system, galactic and extra-galactic objects within a narrow (24’) strip of sky. In principle, the ILMT should detect and regularly monitor more than 50 multiply imaged quasars. It will also detect numerous supernovae (see Kumar et al., these proceedings) as well as space debris (see Pradhan et al., also in these proceedings).
Keywords : astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, observatories, visible
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Jean Surdej, Paul Hickson, Ermanno Borra, Jean-Pierre Swings, Serge Habraken, Talat Akhunov, Przemyslaw Bartczak, Hum Chand, Michaël De Becker, Ludovic Delchambre, François Finet, Brajesh Kumar, Anil Pandey, Anna Pospieszalska, Bikram Pradhan, Ram Sagar, Olivier Wertz, Peter De Cat, Stefan Denis, Jonathan de Ville, Mukesh Kumar Jaiswar, Patricia Lampens, Nandish Nanjappa & Jean-Marc Tortolani, «The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 87 - Année 2018, Actes de colloques, First Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy & Astrophysics (BINA) workshop - November 2016 - Nainital, India, 68 - 79 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=7498.