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)
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 ).
Out aim and strategy
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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
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What are we searching for?
- To find information about asteroids composition, without using spectral observations, but imaging with broad-band filters.
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Why?
- Because these kind of observations require less exposure time and they can be done for very faint targets.
How the search filter works?
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Search after Name:
- Intoduce the name of the asteroid (ex. 3104 or 1982 BB1 ).
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Search by Data
- The format for data is YYYYMMDD (ex. 20210503).
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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