The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 44 Issue 1
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- Pages.62.1-62.1
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- 2019
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Thirty-Minute ToO (TMT) with KMTNet
- Kim, Jae-Woo (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Shin, Min-Su (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Chang, Seo-Won (Australian National University) ;
- Ree, Chang Hee (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Kim, Seung-Lee (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Lee, Chung-Uk (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
- Published : 2019.04.10
Abstract
Current large observational projects perform both static and dynamic sky surveys. The Thirty-Minute Target of Opportunity (TMT) is the project focusing on the dynamic sky survey using Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) that is the best observing system to investigate the dynamic sky. TMT aims to perform and experiment on following components : 1) to select transient or variable sources having hour to day scale cadences for future science cases, 2) to optimize the observation strategy for these objects, 3) to provide automated photometric pipelines for the time series data, and 4) to test the data release environment for all astronomers. In the near future, it is expected that a huge number of events will be alerted through large area surveys such as LSST. Therefore, the TMT project will provide opportunities to prepare the future large survey era as well as to understand the nature of interesting astronomical events.
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