Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope: Status, Key Science, and Opportunities

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Jan 2012

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #422.24

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On July 12, 2005 Lowell Observatory broke ground at the construction site of the 4.3-meter Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) near Happy Jack, AZ, 40 miles southeast of Flagstaff and at an elevation of 7,800'. The facility is now nearly complete, with testing of the primary mirror and active optics well underway and testing at RC focus imminent. First light is expected by May 2012.
Lowell and its partners, Boston University and the University of Maryland, will use the DCT for a variety of projects including studies of star formation in dwarf galaxies, cometary nuclei and KBOs, activity variations of Sun-like stars, and ToO follow-up observations of GRBs. Discovery Communications will use results of projects carried out by Lowell and its partners in broadcast and online media, reaching 99 million households in the USA and over 1.5 billion subscribers worldwide. The first major feature on the making of the telescope is expected to air on Discovery in June 2012.
In this poster we describe the general capabilities of the telescope, first light instrument suite, and key science projects. We also seek an additional partner to join us, BU, and UMD and invite interested parties or institutions to visit this poster and the adjacent one, presented by DCT Commissioning Scientist Stephen Levine, for more information.

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