Opto-mechanical design of the Antarctic Telescope ICE-T

Klaus G. Strassmeier; Igor DiVarano; Manfred Woche; Hans J. Kaercher; Peter Eisenträger

doi:10.1117/12.856246

6 August 2010 The Opto-mechanical design of the Antarctic Telescope ICE-T

Klaus G. Strassmeier, Igor DiVarano, Manfred Woche, Hans J. Kaercher, Peter Eisenträger

Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 77334U (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856246
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The International Concordia Explorer Telescope (ICE-T) is two 60cm wide-field robotic Schmidt telescopes optimized for high-precision CCD photometry in two separate bandpasses. The project is under final design by an international consortium led by the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany, and was foreseen to be placed at the French-Italian Concordia Station on Dome C in Antarctica. Its core scientific objective would be to detect and investigate the combined effects of extra-solar planets, stellar magnetic activity and non-radial pulsations on the structure and evolution of stars. We present the optical, the mechanical, and the electronic design of the telescope and lay out the operational constraints for its search for extrasolar planets and magnetic stellar activity.

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Klaus G. Strassmeier, Igor DiVarano, Manfred Woche, Hans J. Kaercher, and Peter Eisenträger "The Opto-mechanical design of the Antarctic Telescope ICE-T", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 77334U (6 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856246

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