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* Location: Piszkesteto Mountain Station of the Konkoly Obs., Hungary
 
* Location: Piszkesteto Mountain Station of the Konkoly Obs., Hungary
 
* 1m RCC,  60/90/180 cm Schmidt, 50 cm Cassegrain
 
* 1m RCC,  60/90/180 cm Schmidt, 50 cm Cassegrain
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===Danish/Czech Telescope ===
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* Contact person: Pavel Koubsky and Uffe Jorgensen
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* La Silla
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* 1.54m, remotely controlled by Czechs

Revision as of 19:23, 19 October 2012

Status of the partners preparing for the Gaia Alerts verification

Information about the requirements

In order to become a member of the Gaia Follow-up Network for Transient Objects (Gaia-FUN-TO), especially to take part in the alerts verification, a potential partner must fullfil a number of requirements. The list of requirements is still to be fine-tuned, but they are:

  1. react to an alert (or to a request with a target) and conduct its observations (in multiple filters) within 24h
  2. reduce the photometric data and submit to the CPCS within 24h from the observation
  3. flux calibrations better than 10% (0.1 mag)
  4. perform at least 5 (TBC) tests before September 2013.

Partners in test

Loiano

  • Contact person: Gisella Clementini (gisella.clementini oabo.inaf.it)
  • Location: Loiano, Bologna, Italy
  • 1.5m
  • tests: 2011

Asiago

  • Contact person: Gisella Clementini (gisella.clementini oabo.inaf.it)
  • Location: Padova, Italy
  • 1.82m

APT2

  • Contact person: Gisella Clementini (gisella.clementini oabo.inaf.it)
  • Location: Serra la Nave, Catania, Sicily
  • robotic 80cm Ritchey-Cretien

TNT

  • Contact person: Anna Piersimoni (piersimoni oa-teramo.inaf.it)
  • Location: Teramo, Italy,
  • 72cm Ritchey-Cretien

Swiss Euler

  • Contact person: Laurent Eyer (laurent.eyer unige.ch)
  • La Silla, Chile
  • 1.2m

Belgian Mercatore

  • Contact person: Laurent Eyer (laurent.eyer unige.ch)
  • La Palma (Swiss time)
  • 1.2m

Konkoly

  • Contact person: Laszlo Szabados (szabados konkoly.hu)
  • Location: Piszkesteto Mountain Station of the Konkoly Obs., Hungary
  • 1m RCC, 60/90/180 cm Schmidt, 50 cm Cassegrain

Danish/Czech Telescope

  • Contact person: Pavel Koubsky and Uffe Jorgensen
  • La Silla
  • 1.54m, remotely controlled by Czechs