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The IRAIT Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

M. Busso ,
G. Tosti ,
P. Persi ,
M. Ferrari-Toniolo ,
S. Ciprini ,
L. Corcione ,
F. Gasparoni  and
M. Dabalá
M. Busso
Affiliation:
INAF — Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy; busso@to.astro.it Dipartimento di Fisica, Via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy; Gino.Tosti@fisica.unipg.it
G. Tosti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy; Gino.Tosti@fisica.unipg.it
P. Persi
Affiliation:
IAS-CNR, via Fosso del Cavaliere, 00100 Roma; persi@ias.rm.cnr.it
M. Ferrari-Toniolo
Affiliation:
IAS-CNR, via Fosso del Cavaliere, 00100 Roma; ferrari@ias.rm.cnr.it
S. Ciprini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia, Italy; Stefano.Ciprini@pg.infn.it
L. Corcione
Affiliation:
INAF — Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy; corcione@to.astro.it
F. Gasparoni
Affiliation:
Tecnomare SpA, San Marco 3584, 30124 Venezia, Italy; gasparoni.f@tecnomare.it
M. Dabalá
Affiliation:
Tecnomare SpA, San Marco 3584, 30124 Venezia, Italy; dabala.m@tecnomare.it
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Abstract

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We present the status of the project IRAIT (the Italian Robotic Antarctic Infrared Telescope) that will be hosted at Dome C in the Italo-French Concordia station. We review the main scientific motivations of the effort, and describe the characteristics of the telescope, which has been completed and is now under test at the Coloti-Montone site operated by the University of Perugia. Then we describe the design of the mid-IR camera that is under construction, showing some examples of the applications on the basis of the twin instrument TIRCAM II, now operating at the Italian Infrared Telescope TIRGO.

Keywords

infrared: generaltelescopessurveysstars: formationISM: clouds: Magellanic Cloudsstars: AGB and post-AGB

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Research Article
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , 2002 , pp. 306 - 312
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2002

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