The New Robotic Telescope: progress report

Helen E. Jermak; Josué Barrera; David Copley; Chris M. Copperwheat; Javier De Cos Juez; Javier Gracia Rodriquez; J. J. Fernandez-Valdivia; A. Garcí a Piñero; Carlos M. Gutiérrez; Éamonn Harvey; Maider Insausti; Johan H. Knapen; Antonio Maudes Gutiérrez; Adrian M. McGrath; Asier Oria; Ali Ranjbar; Rafael Rebolo-López; Iain A. Steele; Miguel Torres; Dong Xu; Thirasak Panyaphirawat; Suparerk Aukkaravittayapun

doi:10.1117/12.2562706

13 December 2020 The New Robotic Telescope: progress report

Helen E. Jermak, Josué Barrera, David Copley, Chris M. Copperwheat, Javier De Cos Juez, Javier Gracia Rodriquez, J. J. Fernandez-Valdivia, A. Garcí a Piñero, Carlos M. Gutiérrez, Éamonn Harvey, Maider Insausti, Johan H. Knapen, Antonio Maudes Gutiérrez, Adrian M. McGrath, Asier Oria, Ali Ranjbar, Rafael Rebolo-López, Iain A. Steele, Miguel Torres, Dong Xu, Thirasak Panyaphirawat, Suparerk Aukkaravittayapun

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Proceedings Volume 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII; 114453D (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562706
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The robotic 2-metre Liverpool Telescope (LT), located at Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, has seen great success in its <15 year lifetime. In particular the facility thrives in time domain astronomy, responding rapidly to triggers from Swift and efficiently conducting a wide variety of science with its intelligent scheduler. The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) will be a 4-metre class, rapid response, autonomous telescope joining the Liverpool Telescope on La Palma in ~2025. The NRT will slew to targets and start observations within 30 seconds of receipt of a trigger, allowing us to observe faint and rapidly fading transient sources that no other optical facility can capture. The NRT will be the world’s largest optical robotic telescope. Its novel, first-generation instrumentation suite will be designed to conduct spectroscopic, polarimetric and photometric observations driven by user requirements.

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Helen E. Jermak, Josué Barrera, David Copley, Chris M. Copperwheat, Javier De Cos Juez, Javier Gracia Rodriquez, J. J. Fernandez-Valdivia, A. Garcí a Piñero, Carlos M. Gutiérrez, Éamonn Harvey, Maider Insausti, Johan H. Knapen, Antonio Maudes Gutiérrez, Adrian M. McGrath, Asier Oria, Ali Ranjbar, Rafael Rebolo-López, Iain A. Steele, Miguel Torres, Dong Xu, Thirasak Panyaphirawat, and Suparerk Aukkaravittayapun "The New Robotic Telescope: progress report", Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, 114453D (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562706

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