MeerLICHT and BlackGEM: custom-built telescopes to detect faint optical transients

被引：51

作者：

Bloemen, Steven ^{[1
]}

Groot, Paul J. ^{[1
]}

Woudt, Patrick ^{[2
]}

Wolt, Marc Klein ^{[1
]}

McBride, Vanessa ^{[2
,3
]}

Nelemans, Gijs ^{[1
]}

Kording, Elmar ^{[1
]}

Pretorius, Magaretha L. ^{[4
]}

Roelfsema, Ronald ^{[5
]}

Bettonvil, Felix ^{[5
]}

Balster, Harry ^{[1
]}

Bakker, Roy ^{[1
]}

Dolron, Peter ^{[1
]}

van Elteren, Arjen ^{[6
]}

Elswijk, Eddy ^{[3
]}

Engels, Arno ^{[1
]}

Fender, Rob ^{[4
]}

Fokker, Marc ^{[1
]}

de Haan, Menno ^{[3
]}

Hagoort, Klaas ^{[10
]}

de Hoog, Jasper ^{[10
]}

ter Horst, Rik ^{[5
]}

van der Kevie, Giel ^{[10
]}

Kozlowski, Stanislaw ^{[7
]}

Kragt, Jan ^{[5
]}

Lech, Grzegorz ^{[8
]}

Le Poole, Rudolf ^{[6
]}

Lesman, Dirk ^{[5
]}

Morren, Johan ^{[9
]}

Navarro, Ramon ^{[5
]}

Paalberends, Willem-Jelle

Paterson, Kerry ^{[2
]}

Pawlaszek, Rafal ^{[8
]}

Pessemier, Wim ^{[9
]}

Raskin, Gert ^{[9
]}

Rutten, Harrie ^{[11
]}

Scheers, Bart ^{[12
]}

Schuil, Menno ^{[5
]}

Sybilski, Piotr W. ^{[8
]}

机构：

[1] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, NL-6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands

[2] Univ Cape Town, Dept Astron, Private Bag X3, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa

[3] South African Astron Observ, POB 9, ZA-7935 Observatory, South Africa

[4] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Denys Wilkinson Bldg,Keble Rd, Oxford OX1 3RH, England

[5] NOVA Opt InfraRed Instrumentat Grp, Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4, NL-7991 PD Dwingeloo, Netherlands

[6] Leiden Observ, Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands

[7] Cilium Engn Sp Zoo, Lokietka 5, PL-87100 Torun, Poland

[8] Sybilla Technol Sp Zoo, Torunska 59, PL-85023 Bydgoszcz, Poland

[9] Leuven Univ, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

[10] Airborne, Laan van Ypenburg 70-78, NL-2497 GB The Hague, Netherlands

[11] Castor Opt Design, Boerenweg 32, NL-5944 EK Arcen, Netherlands

[12] Ctr Wiskunde & Informat, Sci Pk 123, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands

来源：

GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE TELESCOPES VI | 2016年 / 9906卷

关键词：

optical telescope; synoptic survey; gravitational waves; BlackGEM; MeerLICHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPARTS; ADVANCED LIGO; MERGERS; OBSERVATORIES; SOLARIS;

D O I：

10.1117/12.2232522

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

We present the MeerLICHT and BlackGEM telescopes, which are wide-field optical telescopes that are currently being built to study transient phenomena, gravitational wave counterparts and variable stars. The telescopes have 65 cm primary mirrors and a 2.7 square degree field-of-view. The MeerLICHT and BlackGEM projects have different science goals, but will use identical telescopes. The first telescope, MeerLICHT, will be commissioned at Sutherland (South Africa) in the first quarter of 2017. It will co-point with MeerKAT to collect optical data commensurate with the radio observations. After careful analysis of MeerLICHT's performance, three telescopes of the same type will be commissioned in La Silla (Chile) in 2018 to form phase I of the BlackGEM array. BlackGEM aims at detecting and characterizing optical counterparts of gravitational wave events detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. In this contribution we present an overview of the science goals, the design and the status of the two projects.

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