THz balloon-borne telescope: Tera-GATE project

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Aug 2008

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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II. Edited by Stepp, Larry M.; Gilmozzi, Roberto. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7012, p

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We describe the balloon-borne telescope (69cm aperture) for the project Tera-GATE (THz observation with GaAs photoconductors and a balloon-borne TElescope) aiming at the THz astronomical observations. THz region is the last frontier left not well explored and we are planning to have multiband photometric observations covering the wavelength from 50 to 300 microns and get completed SED data for some Young Stellar Objects in this band. The telescope, we are constructing, has image stabilizing system which cancels out pointing error (up to about 0.3 degrees) of the balloon gondola, and enables us to take a long exposure needed for highly sensitive observations. We will show the structure of the telescope, cold stop design, and characteristics of the image stabilizing system.

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