[en] The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) continuously scans the 22’ wide strip of the zenithal sky and records the images in three broadband filters (g’, r’ and i’) using a 4Kx4K CCD camera. In about 10-12 hours of observations during a single night, ~15 GB of data volume is generated. The raw images resulting from the observations in Oct-Nov 2022 have been pre-processed and astrometrically calibrated. In order to exploit the scientific capabilities of the ILMT survey data by the larger scientific community, we are disseminating the raw data (along with dark and flat fields) and the astrometrically corrected data. These data sets can be downloaded by the users to conduct the scientific projects of their interest. In future, the data will be processed in near real-time and will be available via the ARIES data archive portal.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Misra, Kuntal; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Ailawadhi, Bhavya; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Deen Dayal, Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Akhunov, Talat; National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ; Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Borra, Ermanno; Laval University, Canada
Dubey, Monalisa; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
Dukiya, Naveen; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
Fu, Jiuyang; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Grewal, Baldeep; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Hickson, Paul; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Kumar, Brajesh; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India
Negi, Vibhore; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Deen Dayal, Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Pranshu, Kumar; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Sun, Ethen; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Surdej, Jean ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Kumar, B., Kumar, H., Dangwal, K. S., Rawat, H., Misra, K., Negi, V., Jaiswar, M. K., Dukiya, N., Ailawadhi, B., Hickson, P. and Surdej, J. (2022a) First light preparations of the 4m ILMT. JAI, 11, 2240003. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2251171722400037.
Kumar, B., Negi, V., Ailawadhi, B., Mishra, S., Pradhan, B., Misra, K., Hickson, P. and Surdej, J. (2022b) Upcoming 4m ILMT facility and data reduction pipeline testing. JApA, 43(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-021-09795-3.
Surdej, J., Ailawadhi, B., Akhunov, T., Borra, E., Dubey, M., Dukiya, N., Fu, J., Grewal, B., Hickson, P., Kumar, B., Misra, K., Negi, V., Pospieszalska-Surdej, A., Pranshu, K. and Sun, E. (2024) The 4 m International Liquid Mirror Telescope project. BSRSL, 93(2), 895–902. https://doi.org/10.25518/0037-9565.11918.
Surdej, J., Hickson, P., Borra, H., Swings, J.-P., Habraken, S., Akhunov, T., Bartczak, P., Chand, H., De Becker, M., Delchambre, L., Finet, F., Kumar, B., Pandey, A., Pospieszalska, A., Pradhan, B., Sagar, R., Wertz, O., De Cat, P., Denis, S., de Ville, J., Jaiswar, M. K., Lampens, P., Nanjappa, N. and Tortolani, J.-M. (2018) The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope. BSRSL, 87, 68–79. https://doi.org/10.25518/0037-9565.7498.
