The Large Zenith Telescope project - a 6-meter mercury-mirror telescope

被引：21

作者：

Hickson, P ^{[1
]}

Borra, E ^{[1
]}

Cabanac, R ^{[1
]}

Chapman, S ^{[1
]}

de Lapparent, V ^{[1
]}

Mulrooney, M ^{[1
]}

Walker, G ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

来源：

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OPTICAL/IR TELESCOPES VI | 1998年 / 3352卷

关键词：

telescopes; liquid-mirror; surveys; redshifts; cosmology;

D O I：

10.1117/12.319286

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Large Zenith Telescope is a zenith-pointing telescope with a 6-meter diameter rotating mercury mirror. Located in mountains near Vancouver, Canada, it is expected to see first light in 1998. Equipped with a low-noise drift-scanning CCD camera, the telescope will survey a 17-arcmin-wide strip of sky using a set of medium-band filters. The data are expected to provide spectral energy distributions and photometric redshifts for over a million galaxies which will form a base for studies of galaxy evolution and large-scale structure.

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