Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
| Alternative names | DKIST |
|---|---|
| Observatory |
Haleakala Observatory  |
| Location(s) | Maui, Hawaii, US |
| Coordinates | 20°42′24″N 156°15′22″W / 20.7068°N 156.2561°WCoordinates: 20°42′24″N 156°15′22″W / 20.7068°N 156.2561°W[1] |
| Organization |
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
| Altitude | 3,084 m (10,118 ft) [1] |
| Wavelength | 400 nm (750 THz)[1]-2,000 nm (150 THz)[1] |
| Built | January 2013– |
| Telescope style |
Gregorian telescope optical telescope solar telescope |
| Diameter | 4.24 m (13 ft 11 in)[1] |
| Secondary diameter | 0.65 m (2 ft 2 in) |
| Mounting | altazimuth mount |
| Website |
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  Location of Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope | |
The National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), known as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) until 2013, is a large solar telescope managed by the National Solar Observatory, that is currently under construction.[2] With a planned completion date of 2018, it is expected to become the world's largest solar telescope. It is a collaboration of numerous research institutions.
The telescope will have a 4.0-metre (160 in) diameter primary mirror housed in a large dome,[3] located at Haleakala Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui. While still under construction, the telescope was officially named after a US Senator for Hawaii, Daniel K. Inouye.[4]
Design
DKIST features an off-axis, clear aperture design. This avoids a central obstruction, minimizing scattered light when observing the faint solar corona. It also eases operation of adaptive optics and later image reconstruction such as speckle imaging.
The site on the Haleakala volcano was selected for its clear daytime weather and favourable atmospheric seeing conditions. The DKIST design is intended to enable high-resolution observations of features on the Sun as small as 30 km (20 mi).
Construction
The contract to build the telescope was awarded in 2010, with a then-planned completion date of 2017.[5] Physical construction at the DKIST site began in January 2013 and is currently under way as of August 2015[6] Work on the telescope housing was completed in September 2013.[7]
Partners
As of 2014, twenty-two institutions had joined the collaboration building DKIST:[8]
- Corporate Office: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
- Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
- Principal Investigator: National Solar Observatory
- Co-Principal Investigators:
- High Altitude Observatory
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
- Collaborators:
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Bellan Plasma Group, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University at Northridge
- Colorado Research Associates
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany
- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
- Department of Physics, Montana State University
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- Instrumentation and Space Research Division, Southwest Research Institute
- W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
- University of California Los Angeles
- Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego
- Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy and Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
See also
References
Footnotes
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Frequently Asked Questions - Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope". Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ↑ "The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope". Retrieved 2013-09-26.
- ↑ "ATST Schematic". Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ↑ "Solar Telescope Named for Late Senator Inouye". National Solar Observatory. 16 December 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ↑ "NSF Selects NSO to Build World's Largest Solar Telescope" (Press release). SpaceRef. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ↑ "Building the DKIST – Image Gallery". dkist.nso.edu. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ↑ Durand, Pierrot (2013-09-21), "Work on Dome Completed, say Spanish Companies", French Tribune, retrieved 2013-09-26. (Note that the illustration accompanying the article is a 2012 artist’s rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope calotte dome, and looks nothing like the actual ATST enclosure.)
- ↑ "Collaborating Institutions". dkist.nso.edu. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
Sources
- Keil, S. L.; Rimmele, T. R.; Wagner, J.; The ATST team (June 2010). "Advanced Technology Solar Telescope: A status report". Astronomische Nachrichten. 331 (6): 609–614. Bibcode:2010AN....331..609K. doi:10.1002/asna.201011385.