The 4 m New Robotic Telescope Project: An Updated Report

Bibcode
2021RMxAC..53....8G
DOI
10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.03
Gutiérrez, C. M.; Torres, M.; Oria, A.; Fernández-Valdivia, J. J.; Arnold, D.; Copley, D.; Copperwheat, C.; de Cos Juez, J.; Franco, A.; Fan, Y.; García Piñero, A.; Harvey, E.; Jermak, H.; Jiang, X.; Knapen, J. H.; McGrath, A.; Ranjbar, A.; Rebolo, R.; Smith, R.; Steele, I. A.; Wang, Z.; Wu, X.; Xu, D.; Xue, S.; Yuan, W.; Zheng, Y.
Bibliographical reference

Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series

Advertised on:
9
2021
Number of authors
26
IAC number of authors
8
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is an international collaboration to build and operate a 4m diameter fully robotic telescope. The telescope will take advantage of the superb atmospheric conditions at the Observatory of the Roque de los Muchachos (ORM). In conjunction with a large aperture, entirely robotic operation, quick response, and a set of versatile instrumentation in the optical and near-infrared this guarantees a high scientific impact focused mainly in the area of time domain astronomy. This paper presents the scientific motivation and the status of the project, discussing possible technical solutions under evaluation for the optics, mechanics and control system.
Related projects
NRT with dome 2022
IACTEC Large Telescopes: New Robotic Telescope - NRT

The NRT (New Robotic Telescope) is a project to design and build a 4-meter telescope within five years, which from the ORM will operate in a totally autonomous and robotic way. This form of operation will make it the largest robotic telescope in the world.

Carlos Manuel
Gutiérrez de La Cruz
In progress
Type
Non-refereed
Telescopes
Singular projects
Telescopes
Research and Development
Large telescopes

It may interest you

  • Non-refereed
    Workshop summary: Kaons@CERN 2023

    Kaon physics is at a turning point - while the rare-kaon experiments NA62 and KOTO are in full swing, the end of their lifetime is approaching and the future experimental landscape needs to be defined. With HIKE, KOTO-II and LHCb-Phase-II on the table and under scrutiny, it is a very good moment in time to take stock and contemplate about the

    Anzivino, G. et al.

    Advertised on:

    4
    2024
    Bibcode
    2024EPJC...84..377A
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Finding Water Worlds with Transit Timing Variations

    Models predict that planets with water-rich compositions may be common around low-mass stars, but definitive evidence for the existence of water worlds has remained elusive. Precise mass and radius measurements for small planets allow us to identify candidate water worlds that have bulk densities too low to be consistent with a rocky composition

    Greklek-McKeon, Michael et al.

    Advertised on:

    4
    2024
    Bibcode
    2024ESS.....560502G
    Citations
    0
  • Non-refereed
    Nodal Precession of a Hot Jupiter Transiting the Edge of a Late A-Type Star TOI-1518

    TOI-1518b, a hot Jupiter around a late A-type star, is one of the few planetary systems that transit the edge of the stellar surface (the impact parameter b~0.9) among hot Jupiters around hot stars (Cabot et al. 2021). The host star's high rotation speed (Vsini s~85 km s -1) and the planet's nearly polar orbit (λ~120 deg) may cause a nodal

    Watanabe, Noriharu et al.

    Advertised on:

    4
    2024
    Bibcode
    2024ESS.....561705W
    Citations
    0