Site Informations
This project is financed by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS - UEFISCDI and developed at the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy (AIRA)
AIRA
What is TCS and MuSCAT2
  • Carlos Sánchez Telescope (TCS) is a 1.52 m telescope (first image) located on Teide Observatory, Izaña (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) at 2390 m altitude.
  • MuSCAT2 is an instrument mounted on TCS (second image). The instrument has four cameras that provide images obtained simultaneously with four different filters. Total transmittance of the MuSCAT2 instrument in g (400–550nm), r (550–700 nm), i( 700–820 nm), and zs (820–920nm) bands (third image) (Narita et al. 2019 ).
TCS Observatory TCS Instrument
TCS Observatory TCS Instrument
Out aim and strategy
  • Aim: Characterize a large sample of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) based on spectro-photometric data.
    • Obtain the taxonomic classification
    • Search for heterogeneous asteroids
    • Search for cometary activity inside the NEA's population
    • Quantify the phase angle effects
    • Determine the rotational periods and discuss them in the context of compositional types
    • Select the most interesting targets for a spectroscopic follow-up
    • Complement the data with the information provided by other surveys
  • Strategy: Observe during two nights on every month to obtain data for 10 – 18 NEAs on each session.
Motivation
  • What are we searching for?
    • To find information about asteroids composition, without using spectral observations, but imaging with broad-band filters.
  • Why?
    • Because these kind of observations require less exposure time and they can be done for very faint targets.
How the search filter works?
  • Search after Name:
    • Intoduce the name of the asteroid (ex. 3104 or 1982 BB1 ).
  • Search by Data
    • The format for data is YYYYMMDD (ex. 20210503).
  • Search by Field
    • For the field you need to intoduce 4 numerical values separated by comma. First number is set as RA-min, second as RA-max, third as Dec-min and last Dec-max