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Jean Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov, Ermanno Borra, Monalisa Dubey, Naveen Dukiya, Jiuyang Fu, Baldeep Grewal, Paul Hickson, Brajesh Kumar, Kuntal Misra, Vibhore Negi, Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej, Kumar Pranshu & Ethen Sun

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Project

(Volume 93 - Année 2024 — No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation)
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Abstract

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project is a scientific collaboration in observational astrophysics between the Liège Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics (Liège University, Belgium), the Aryabatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES, Nainital, India) and several Canadian universities (British Columbia, Laval, Montréal, Toronto, Victoria and York). Meanwhile, several other institutes have joined the project: the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the National University of Uzbekistan and the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (Uzbekistan) as well as the Poznan Observatory (Poland). The Liège company AMOS (Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems) has built the telescope structure that has been erected on the ARIES site in Devasthal (Uttarakhand, India). It is the first liquid mirror telescope being dedicated to astronomical observations. First light was obtained on 29th April 2022 and commissioning is being conducted at the present time. In this short article, we describe and illustrate the main components of the ILMT. We also highlight the ILMT papers presented during the third BINA workshop, which discuss various aspects of the ILMT science programs.

Keywords : ILMT, survey, telescope

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Jean Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov, Ermanno Borra, Monalisa Dubey, Naveen Dukiya, Jiuyang Fu, Baldeep Grewal, Paul Hickson, Brajesh Kumar, Kuntal Misra, Vibhore Negi, Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej, Kumar Pranshu & Ethen Sun, «The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Project», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 93 - Année 2024, No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation, 895-902 URL : https://popups.ulg.ac.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=11918.

About: Jean Surdej

Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium. Corresponding author: jsurdej@uliege.be

About: Bhavya Ailawadhi

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, India

About: Talat Akhunov

National University of Uzbekistan, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 100174 Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Astronomicheskaya 33, 100052 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

About: Ermanno Borra

Department of Physics, Université Laval, 2325, rue de l’Université, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada

About: Monalisa Dubey

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Applied Physics, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 243006, India

About: Naveen Dukiya

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Applied Physics, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 243006, India.

About: Jiuyang Fu

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

About: Baldeep Grewal

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

About: Paul Hickson

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

About: Brajesh Kumar

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India.

About: Kuntal Misra

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India.

About: Vibhore Negi

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, India

About: Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej

Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000, Liège, Belgium

About: Kumar Pranshu

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 700106, India

About: Ethen Sun

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada