Introduction of Chinese SONG telescope

Guomin Wang; Xiang Jiang; Hai Wang; Songfeng Kou; Dongsheng Niu; Yu Ye; Jin Xu; Zhiyong Zhang; Linzhe Xu; Changzhi Ren; Zhongyu Yue

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22 July 2014 Introduction of Chinese SONG telescope

Guomin Wang, Xiang Jiang, Hai Wang, Songfeng Kou, Dongsheng Niu, Yu Ye, Jin Xu, Zhiyong Zhang, Linzhe Xu, Changzhi Ren, Zhongyu Yue

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Proceedings Volume 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V; 914510 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054705
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

SONG (Stellar Oscillation Network Group) is an international project to form a global observing network of eight 1- meter class telescopes. China joined this project and funded one node telescope for this network. By the end of 2013, the Chinese SONG telescope has been installed on the Delinha observing site of Purple Mountain Observatory in Qinghai province. This paper will give the introduction of this telescope, including its optical system, structure and control system. Besides, the preliminary observing performance of the telescope on site will be given in the second part of this paper.

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Guomin Wang, Xiang Jiang, Hai Wang, Songfeng Kou, Dongsheng Niu, Yu Ye, Jin Xu, Zhiyong Zhang, Linzhe Xu, Changzhi Ren, and Zhongyu Yue "Introduction of Chinese SONG telescope", Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, 914510 (22 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054705

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