Hostname: page-component-68945f75b7-4zrgc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-05T18:40:26.574Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

IRAIT (Science to be done with...)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2008

H. Zinnecker ,
N. Epchtein ,
H. Rauer ,
R. Guandalini ,
G. Tosti  and
M. Busso
R. Guandalini*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy
G. Tosti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy
M. Busso
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy
*
guandalini@fisica.unipg.it
Get access

Abstract

The International Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope (IRAIT) will be the first European infrared telescope to operate on the Antarctic Plateau: IRAIT is scheduled to arrive at Dome C during the 2007–2008 Antarctic campaign. The main IRAIT Focal Plane Instrument is AMICA (Antarctic Multiband Infrared CAmera) an instrument designed to observe in the Near- and Mid-infrared (2–28 μm). Here we give a brief description of the telescope and discuss which kind of science could be performed from Dome C.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 33: 2nd ARENA Conference: The Astrophysical Science Cases at Dome C , 2008 , pp. 243 - 247
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Busso, M., Gallino, R., & Wasserburg, G.J., 1999, ARA&A, 37, 239 CrossRef
Guandalini, R., & Briguglio, R., 2008, EAS Publ. Ser., 33, 297 CrossRef
Guandalini, R., Busso, M., Ciprini, S., Silvestro, G., & Persi, P., 2006, A&A, 445, 1069
Guandalini, R., & Busso, M., 2007a, in preparation
Guandalini, R., & Busso, M., 2007b, EAS Publ. Ser., 25, 119 CrossRef
Straniero, O., Dolci, M., Valentini, A., et al., 2007, EAS, 25, 215
Strassmeier, K., et al., 2008, EAS Publ. Ser., 33, 267 CrossRef
Tosti, G., for the IRAIT collaboration, 2007, EAS Publ. Ser., 25, 209 CrossRef