Year: 2018
Type: article
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).
Authors: 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
Institutions: University of Liège, Fund for Scientific Research, University of British Columbia, Université Laval, Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, National University of Uzbekistan, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Bonn, Royal Observatory of Belgium
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2804733339