TAOS II: THE ROBOTIC OPERATIONS

Joel H. Castro-Chacón; Matthew Lehner; Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz; Benjamín Hernández; Charles Alcock; Chung Kai Huang; Kem H. Cook; John C. Geary; L. Figueroa; C. Guerrero; J. B. Hernández-Águila; Juan C. Narvaez; Timothy Norton; Fernando Quiroz; E. Sánchez; Shiang Yu Wang; José S. Silva; Andrew Szentgyorgyi; You Hua Chu; Wei Ling Yen; Wen Ping Chen; Zhi Wei Zhang

doi:10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.27

TAOS II: THE ROBOTIC OPERATIONS

Joel H. Castro-Chacón, Matthew Lehner, Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz, Benjamín Hernández, Charles Alcock, Chung Kai Huang, Kem H. Cook, John C. Geary, L. Figueroa, C. Guerrero, J. B. Hernández-Águila, Juan C. Narvaez, Timothy Norton, Fernando Quiroz, E. Sánchez, Shiang Yu Wang, José S. Silva, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, You Hua Chu, Wei Ling YenWen Ping Chen, Zhi Wei Zhang

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In this work, we present the general procedure for the robotic observations of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II). The project aims to detect small TNOs (Transneptunian Objects) by serendipitous stellar occultations. To do so TAOS II will operate three 1.3 m telescopes equipped with CMOS cameras which are able to read about 10,000 stars in multiple sub-apertures at a 20 Hz cadence. At such rates, it will be possible to identify diffraction features in the lightcurves, helping us to estimate a distance and object size to each occultation event. TAOS II is installed in the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro Mártir, Ensenada, México (OAN-SPM). The site has good observing conditions, typically with around 260 useful nights per year. Here, we describe the different process to be performed in a typical observing night: system start up and shut down, monitoring observing conditions, acquisition of calibration images, field selection, pointing, camera synchronization, determination of aperture sizes and positions, and high speed image acquisition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	137-139
Number of pages	3
Journal	Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias
Volume	53
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.27
State	Published - 2019
Event	6th Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories, RMxAC 2021 - Mazagon, Huelva, Spain Duration: 30 Sep 2019 → 4 Oct 2019

Keywords

Kuiper belt: general
occultations
surveys
telescopes

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Castro-Chacón, J. H., Lehner, M., Reyes-Ruiz, M., Hernández, B., Alcock, C., Huang, C. K., Cook, K. H., Geary, J. C., Figueroa, L., Guerrero, C., Hernández-Águila, J. B., Narvaez, J. C., Norton, T., Quiroz, F., Sánchez, E., Wang, S. Y., Silva, J. S., Szentgyorgyi, A., Chu, Y. H., ... Zhang, Z. W. (2019). TAOS II: THE ROBOTIC OPERATIONS. Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias, 53, 137-139. https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.27

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Castro-Chacón, JH, Lehner, M, Reyes-Ruiz, M, Hernández, B, Alcock, C, Huang, CK, Cook, KH, Geary, JC, Figueroa, L, Guerrero, C, Hernández-Águila, JB, Narvaez, JC, Norton, T, Quiroz, F, Sánchez, E, Wang, SY, Silva, JS, Szentgyorgyi, A, Chu, YH, Yen, WL, Chen, WP & Zhang, ZW 2019, 'TAOS II: THE ROBOTIC OPERATIONS', Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias, vol. 53, pp. 137-139. https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.27

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