The REM telescope: a robotic multiwavelength facility

Filippo Maria Zerbi; Guido Chincarini; Gabriele Ghisellini; Marcello Rodono; Gino Tosti; Lucio A. Antonelli; Paolo Conconi; Stefano Covino; Giuseppe Cutispoto; Emilio Molinari; Luciano Nicastro; Eliana Palazzi

doi:10.1117/12.551145

30 September 2004 The REM telescope: a robotic multiwavelength facility

Filippo Maria Zerbi, Guido Chincarini, Gabriele Ghisellini, Marcello Rodono, Gino Tosti, Lucio A. Antonelli, Paolo Conconi, Stefano Covino, Giuseppe Cutispoto, Emilio Molinari, Luciano Nicastro, Eliana Palazzi

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Proceedings Volume 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551145
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The REM Observatory, recently installed and commissioned at la Silla Observatory Chile, is the first moderate aperture robotic telescope able to cover simultaneously the visible-NIR (0.45-2.3 microns) wavelength range. His very fast pointing and his full robotization makes it an ideal observing facility for fast transients. The high throughput Infrared Camera and the Visible imaging spectrograph simultaneously fed by a dichroic allows to collect high S/N data in an unprecedented large spectral range on a telescope of this size. The REM observatory is an example of a versatile and agile facility necessary complement to large telescopes in fileds in which rapid response and/or target pre-screening are necessary. We give in this paper an overview of the Observatory and its performances with emphasis to the innovative technical solution adopted to reach such performances.

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Filippo Maria Zerbi, Guido Chincarini, Gabriele Ghisellini, Marcello Rodono, Gino Tosti, Lucio A. Antonelli, Paolo Conconi, Stefano Covino, Giuseppe Cutispoto, Emilio Molinari, Luciano Nicastro, and Eliana Palazzi "The REM telescope: a robotic multiwavelength facility", Proc. SPIE 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, (30 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551145

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