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- Title
The Seimei telescope project and technical developments.
- Authors
Kurita, Mikio; Kino, Masaru; Iwamuro, Fumihide; Ohta, Kouji; Nogami, Daisaku; Izumiura, Hideyuki; Yoshida, Michitoshi; Matsubayashi, Kazuya; Kuroda, Daisuke; Nakatani, Yoshikazu; Yamamoto, Kodai; Tsutsui, Hironori; Iribe, Masatsugu; Jikuya, Ichiro; Ohtani, Hiroshi; Shibata, Kazunari; Takahashi, Keisuke; Tokoro, Hitoshi; Maihara, Toshinori; Nagata, Tetsuya
- Abstract
An overview of the Seimei telescope, a 3.8 m optical infrared telescope located on Mt. Chikurinji in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, is presented. Seimei is a segmented-mirror telescope whose primary mirror consists of 18 petal-shaped segments. The telescope tube supporting the thin segmented mirrors is structurally incorporated within large arc-rails providing the elevation axis. The tube has a light-weight homologous structure designed with a genetic algorithm. The total weight of the telescope tube, including 1.4-ton optics, is only 8 tons. By virtue of its light weight, the telescope is able to point at an object anywhere in the observable sky within one minute. The telescope is operated by Kyoto University in collaboration with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Half of the telescope time is used by Kyoto University. The remaining time is open to the Japanese astronomical community. NAOJ is responsible for the management of the open-use time, including handling of the observation proposals. The telescope is now regularly performing scientific observations on the basis of a variety of proposals.
- Subjects
KYOTO Daigaku; OPTICAL telescopes; TELESCOPES; ASTRONOMICAL observatories; GENETIC algorithms; TIME management; OPTICS
- Publication
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2020, Vol 72, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0004-6264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pasj/psaa036