30 mai 2017 à 2 juin 2017
Impérial Palace
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Development of a Wide-Field CMOS Camera: Tomo-e Gozen and Contributions to EM Follow-up Observations of Gravitational Wave Events

31 mai 2017, 17:06
4m
Impérial Palace

Impérial Palace

Allée de l'Impérial, Annecy
Poster Posters

Orateur

Ryou Ohsawa (Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo)

Description

We are developing a wide-field CMOS camera, Tomo-e Gozen, which will be mounted on the $105\,$cm Schmidt telescope at the Kiso Observatory, the University of Tokyo. The Tomo-e Gozen camera is composed of four camera modules, each of which is equipped with 21 CMOS image sensors with $1\,$arcsec/pix. The Tomo-e Gozen captures a sky of about 20-sq degree without any overhead due to readout time. Thus, the Tomo-e Gozen has a high survey efficiency which is beneficial to identify gravitational wave (GW) event sources. A prototype of the Tomo-e Gozen camera with 8 CMOS image sensors was developed and we confirmed that a limiting magnitude at the $V$-band is about $19\,$mag. for one second integration as designed. Development of one of the four camera modules is ongoing and will be completed by the end of 2017. The first light of the Tomo-e Gozen camera with the four camera modules is scheduled in 2018.

Auteur principal

Ryou Ohsawa (Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo)

Co-auteurs

Fumihiko Usui (CPS, Kobe University) Hidenori Takahashi (IoA, University of Tokyo) Hiroyuki Maehara (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Junichi Watanabe (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Kazuma Mitsuda (IoA, University of Tokyo) Ken'ichi Tarusawa (Kiso, IoA, University of Tokyo) Kentaro Motohara (IoA, University of Tokyo) Ko Arimatsu (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Makoto Ichiki (IoA, University of Tokyo) Mamoru Doi (IoA, University of Tokyo) Masahiro Konishi (IoA, University of Tokyo) Masaomi Tanaka (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Mikio Morii (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics) Mikiya Sato (The Nippon Meteor Society) Mitsuru Kokubo (Tohoku University) Naoto Kobayashi (IoA, University of Tokyo) Noriaki Arima (IoA, University of Tokyo) Noriyuki Matsunaga (DoA, University of Tokyo) Nozomu Tominaga (Konan University) Seitaro Urakawa (Japan Spaceguard Association) Shigeyuki Sako (IoA, University of Tokyo) Shin-ichiro Okumura (Japan Spaceguard Association) Shiro Ikeda (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics) Takao Soyano (Kiso, IoA, University of Tokyo) Takashi Miyata (IoA, University of Tokyo) Tomohiro Totani (DoA, University of Tokyo) Tomoki Morokuma (IoA, University of Tokyo) Toshihiro Kasuga (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Toshikazu Shigeyama (RESCEU, University of Tokyo) Tsutomu Aoki (Kiso, IoA, University of Tokyo) Yoshifusa Ita (Tohoku University) Yoshikazu Nakada (Kiso, IoA, University of Tokyo) Yuki Mori (Kiso, IoA, University of Tokyo) Yuki Sarugaku (Kiso, IoA, University of Tokyo) Yuto Kojima (IoA, University of Tokyo)

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