A robotic telescope leveraging global science from Veloce

利用 Veloce 全球科学的机器人望远镜

• 批准号: LE190100050
• 负责人: Dr Christian Schwab
• 金额: $ 33.34万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-07-05 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE190100050
• 关键词: robotic; telescope; leveraging; global; science

This project aims to Implement RAPTOR, a dedicated, robotic telescope allowing the use of state-of-the-art Veloce spectrograph. This project will leverage substantial value from Australia’s existing investment in the Veloce facility by allowing Veloce’s use on the 290 nights per year when the Anglo-Australian Telescope is being used by other instruments. Veloce+RAPTOR will enable a new class of transformative science that demands high-cadence, repeated observations over many nights. Expected outcomes include a broad sampling of the properties of exoplanets around nearby stars, critical for informing theories of planet formation, as well as new data addressing a wide range of astronomical questions requiring high-resolution optical spectroscopy of bright stars. Combined with data from the $300m Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, and leveraging the existing $5.9m investment in the Veloce instrument, the RAPTOR telescope will place Australia at the forefront of the global pursuit of the question of how common life is in the Universe.

该项目旨在实施Raptor，这是一种专用的机器人望远镜，允许使用最先进的Veloce光谱仪。该项目将利用澳大利亚对Veloce设施的现有投资带来的巨大价值，允许Veloce在每年290个晚上使用，当时英澳望远镜正被其他仪器使用。Veloce+Raptor将实现一种新的变革性科学，需要在许多晚上进行高节奏、重复的观察。预期结果包括对附近恒星周围系外行星性质的广泛采样，这对提供行星形成理论至关重要，以及解决需要高分辨率恒星光学光谱的一系列天文问题的新数据。结合耗资3亿美元的凌日系外行星调查卫星(TESS)任务的数据，并利用现有的590万美元的Veloce仪器投资，猛禽望远镜将把澳大利亚置于全球追寻宇宙生命普遍程度问题的前沿。