Proposed instrumentation for PILOT

Will Saunders; Peter Gillingham; Andrew McGrath; Roger Haynes; John Storey; Jon Lawrence; Michael Burton; Charles Jenkins; Alcione Mora

doi:10.1117/12.788858

Proposed instrumentation for PILOT

Will Saunders^*, Peter Gillingham, Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes, John Storey, Jon Lawrence, Michael Burton, Charles Jenkins, Alcione Mora

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PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed Australian/European optical/infrared telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light in 2012. The proposed telescope is 2.4m diameter, with overall focal ratio f/10, and a 1 degree field-of-view. In median seeing conditions, it delivers 0.3" FWHM widefield image quality, from 0.7-2.5 microns. In the best quartile of conditions, it delivers diffraction-limited imaging down to 1 micron, or even less with lucky imaging. The areas where PILOT offers the greatest advantages over existing ground-based telescopes are (a) very high resolution optical imaging, (b) high resolution wide-field optical imaging, and (c) all wide-field thermal infrared imaging. The proposed first generation instrumentation consists of (a) a fast, lownoise camera for diffraction-limited optical lucky imaging; (b) a gigapixel optical camera for seeing-limited imaging over a 1 degree field; (c) a 4K × 4K near-infrared (1-5 micron) camera with both wide-field and diffraction-limited modes; and (d) a double-beamed mid-infrared (7-40 micron) imaging spectrograph.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788858
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II - Marseille, France Duration: 23 Jun 2008 → 28 Jun 2008

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7014
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	23/06/08 → 28/06/08

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Saunders, W, Gillingham, P, McGrath, A, Haynes, R, Storey, J, Lawrence, J, Burton, M, Jenkins, C & Mora, A 2008, Proposed instrumentation for PILOT. in Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II., 70144N, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, Marseille, France, 23/06/08. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788858

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