THE@INT Science Discussion Meeting: 6th October 2014, RAS, London
THE@INT: A Terra Hunting Experiment and a new high resolution spectrograph for the Isaac Newton Telescope.
Science discussion meeting: 6th October 2014, RAS Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, London
We will be holding an afternoon (2pm start) meeting on 6thˆàOctober 2014ˆàto present and discuss the prospects of a new high resolution spectrograph installed on the Isaac Newton Telescope.ˆà This meeting is in light of the recent call for new instrument ideas (http://www.ing.iac.es/about-ING/int2014.html) put forward by the ING group in La Palma.
We are proposing to build and install a HARPS-like spectrograph for our study entitled òÀÜTerra Hunting ExperimentòÀÝ.ˆà During this 10 year experiment we propose to share every night with open-time observations.
We welcome discussion and support from the UK astrophysics community for this project.ˆà We hope to provide a mode of operation that is not currently available in the astronomical community òÀÓ that is the provision of aˆàunique facility that will enable programmes requiring nightly data over long time periods.ˆà We are interested to hear from those who would be interested in this provision and to learn about other science cases other than our own.
Registration: There is no charge for this event.ˆà Please email Samantha Thompson (sjt20@cam.ac.uk) to be added to the participants list.ˆà If you wish to make a short presentation (up to a maximum duration of 15 minutes) to present a science case please indicate this in the email and include a title/short description and estimated length of talk.ˆà Registration closes on 25th September or when the venue capacity is reached (100 persons).
Meeting details: 14:00 òÀÓ 17:15 hrs, 6th October 2014 at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BQ.ˆà There will be a tea/coffee break provided in this meeting.ˆà The list of participants and agenda for the meeting will be posted on this website a week before the meeting date.
Organising committee: Didier Queloz (Cambridge), Isabelle Baraffe (Exeter), Samantha Thompson (Cambridge)