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The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope

2018; Société royale des sciences de Liège; Linguagem: Inglês

10.25518/0037-9565.7498

1783-5720

Jean Surdej, Paul Hickson, E. F. Borra, Jean-Pierre Swings, Serge Habraken, Talat Akhunov, P. Bartczak, Hum Chand, M. De Becker, L. Delchambre, F. Finet, Brajesh Kumar, Anil K. Pandey, Anna Pospieszalska, Bikram Pradhan, R. Sagar, O. Wertz, P. De Cat, Stefan Denis, Jonathan de Ville, Mukesh Kumar Jaiswar, P. Lampens, Nandish Nanjappa, Jean-Marc Tortolani,

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is presently (March-June 2017) being erected on the ARIES site in Devasthal (Uttarakhand). We describe and illustrate in the present paper its different components. The ILMT will be used in the Time Delayed Integration (TDI) mode to carry out a deep survey and high S/N photometric and astrometric observations of solar system, galactic and extra-galactic objects within a narrow (24’) strip of sky. In principle, the ILMT should detect and regularly monitor more than 50 multiply imaged quasars. It will also detect numerous supernovae (see Kumar et al., these proceedings) as well as space debris (see Pradhan et al., also in these proceedings).