Development of the MIT Auxiliary Nasmyth Instantly Accessible Camera (MANIAC) for the Magellan I 6.5-Meter Telescope

为麦哲伦 I 6.5 米望远镜开发麻省理工学院辅助 Nasmyth 即时可访问相机 (MANIAC)

• 批准号: 9977535
• 负责人: James Elliot
• 金额: $ 42.95万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-15 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9977535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; MIT; Auxiliary; Nasmyth; Instantly

ELLIOT, James L.Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAST 99-77535This award will support the construction of a state-of-the-art CCD camera to be mounted permanently at one of the Nasmyth foci of the Magellan 6.5 meter telescopes currently nearing completion in Chile. This instantly accessible camera will allow regular observations on a wide variety of timescales and permit rapid response to time-critical or transient phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts. Other programs will include the monitoring of light from gravitationally lensed quasars, occultations of stars by solar system bodies, high precision photometry of microlensing events in the Magellanic Clouds, physical studies of near-earth asteroids, optical follow-up of supernovae in distant galaxies, and exploration of the Kuiper Belt.

麻省理工学院（mit）：该合同将支持建造一个最先进的CCD相机，该相机将永久安装在麦哲伦6.5米望远镜的Nasmyth焦点之一上，目前该望远镜在智利即将完工。这种可即时访问的相机将允许在各种时间尺度上进行定期观测，并允许对时间关键或瞬态现象（如伽马射线暴）进行快速响应。其他项目将包括监测引力透镜类星体发出的光、太阳系天体对恒星的掩星、麦哲伦星云中微透镜事件的高精度光度测定、近地小行星的物理研究、遥远星系中超新星的光学跟踪以及柯伊伯带的探索。