1. MuSCAT3: a 4-color simultaneous camera for the 2m Faulkes Telescope North
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Jacqueline Han, Keisuke Isogai, S. Foale, N. H. Volgenau, Annie Kirby, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Elisabeth Heinrich-Josties, Jon Nation, James D. Armstrong, Mark Bowman, Jerome de Leon, M. Elphick, N. Watanabe, Marshall C. Johnson, Matt Daily, Patrick Conway, Curtis McCully, Akihiko Fukui, K. Kawauchi, Taku Nishiumi, John H. Livingston, Etienne Bachelet, Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi, Joey Chatelain, Mayuko Mori, Wayne Rosing, Motohide Tamura, Norio Narita, S. Kurita, Cary Smith, Daniel-Rolf Harbeck, M. Rabus, Shunichi Abe, Tomoyasu Yamamuro, Brian Haworth, and Masahiro Ikoma
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Telescope ,Pixel ,Observatory ,law ,Field of view ,First light ,Geology ,Remote sensing ,law.invention - Abstract
We report the development of MuSCAT3, a four channel simultaneous imager installed on the 2m Faulkes Telescope North at Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawai’i. MuSCAT3 has a capability of 4-color simultaneous imaging in g (400–550 nm), r (550–700 nm), i (700–820 nm), and zs (820–920 nm) bands with four independent 2048×2048 pixel CCDs, each having a field of view of 9.1×9.1 arcmin2 with a pixel scale of 0.27 arcsec per pixel. The development of MuSCAT3 started from September 2019, and MuSCAT3 achieved its first light on September 28th, 2020. The Las Cumbres Observatory started science operations of MuSCAT3 since November 4th, 2020, although a part of its capabilities are still limited.
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- 2020