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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

(Volume 87 - Année 2018 — Actes de colloques — First Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy & Astrophysics (BINA) workshop - November 2016 - Nainital, India)
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Mots-clés : astronomie, astrophysique, instrumentation, observatoires, visible

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.ulg.ac.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=7498.

About: 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

About: Paul Hickson

Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

About: Ermanno Borra

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

About: Jean-Pierre Swings

Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

About: Serge Habraken

Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

About: 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

About: Przemyslaw Bartczak

Poznań Observatory, Adam Mickiewicz University, Sloneczna 36, 60-101 Poznań, Poland

About: Hum Chand

Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)

About: Michaël De Becker

Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

About: Ludovic Delchambre

Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Universitéde Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

About: François Finet

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 650 N. A’ohoku Place, Hilo, 96720 HI, USA

About: Brajesh Kumar

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India

About: Anil Pandey

Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)

About: Anna Pospieszalska

Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Universitéde Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

About: Bikram Pradhan

Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Universitéde Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

About: Ram Sagar

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India

About: Olivier Wertz

Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Auf dem Hügel 71, D-53121 Bonn 9, Germany

About: Peter De Cat

Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium

About: Stefan Denis

Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liège Science Park, rue des Chasseurs Ardennais 2, 4031 Angleur, Belgium

About: Jonathan de Ville

Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liège Science Park, rue des Chasseurs Ardennais 2, 4031 Angleur, Belgium

About: Mukesh Kumar Jaiswar

Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)

About: Patricia Lampens

Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium

About: Nandish Nanjappa

Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, Uttarakhand (India)

About: Jean-Marc Tortolani

Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS), Liège Science Park, rue des Chasseurs Ardennais 2, 4031 Angleur, Belgium