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. ; Tortolani, J.-M.

published in Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 87, pp. 68-79 (2018)

Abstract: 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).

Note: in Proceedings of the First Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy & Astrophysics (BINA) workshop, November 2016, held in Nainital, India
DOI: 10.25518/0037-9565.7498
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