The IRAIT Project

We present the status of the project IRAIT (the Italian Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italo-French Concordia station. We review the main scientific motivations of the effort, and describe the characteristics of the telescope, which has been completed and...

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Published in:	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 306 - 312
Main Authors:	Busso, M., Tosti, G., Persi, P., Ferrari-Toniolo, M., Ciprini, S., Corcione, L., Gasparoni, F., Dabalá, M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2002
Subjects:	Australia Antarctica, East Antarctica, Antarctic Plateau, Dome C surveys stars: AGB and post-AGB stars: formation infrared: general telescopes ISM: clouds: Magellanic Clouds
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Summary:	We present the status of the project IRAIT (the Italian Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italo-French Concordia station. We review the main scientific motivations of the effort, and describe the characteristics of the telescope, which has been completed and is now under test at the Coloti-Montone site operated by the University of Perugia. Then we describe the design of the mid-IR camera that is under construction, showing some examples of the applications on the basis of the twin instrument TIRCAM II, now operating at the Italian Infrared Telescope TIRGO.
Bibliography:	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA) is an international journal for new and significant research in astronomy and astrophysics, focusing on southern hemisphere astronomy ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	1323-3580 1448-6083
DOI:	10.1071/AS01076