• 천문학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.73-75
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• 2005

The latest scientific highlights obtained with the Subaru telescope are given together with its current status and on-going instrumentation. We have been successfully operating the telescope and 8 observatory instruments (including an adaptive optics system) since January 1999, when the first light was accomplished. Open-use of Subaru began in December 2000. Subaru has a unique capability of its prime focus among other 8-10 meter class telescopes and has an excellent imaging performance as a result of its sophisticated active optics combined with the high stability of the sky at Mauna Kea. Scientific highlights are given on the discoveries of the most distant galaxies, spiral structure on a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur, and planetesimal belts in the debris disk around $\beta$ Pic. Brief summaries are given for three new instruments: the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS), 188 element adaptive optics system, and Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS)

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2002년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.24-25
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• 2002

밀레니움을 전후하여 세계적으로 8m급 초대형 망원경들이 만들어지고 있다. ESO (European Southern Observatory)의 VLT (Very Large Telescopes) 4기, 미국 영국 카나다 등의 연합 Gemini telescope 2기, 일본의 Subaru 1기 등, 10여기의 망원경들이 완성되었고, 차세대 망원경들이 50m급으로 디자인되고 있다. 우주망원경도 지름 2.4m인 허블 우주망원경(Nubble Space Telescope)의 뒤를 이어 6m급의 차세대 우주망원경 (Next Generation Space Telescope)이 개발되고 있어서 2010년경에 발사될 예정이다. (중략)

• 천문학회지
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• 제36권spc1호
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• pp.145-149
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• 2003

LIST is the Lyman-$\alpha$ Imaging Solar Telescope, a project funded by the Korean government to fly on the second Korean Science and Technology research Satellite (STSat-2) due to launch in December 2005. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Minhwan Jang of Kyung-Hee University and of the Space Payload Research Center (SPARC), a consortium of Korean universities and institutions formed to develop scientific research projects in space. The purpose of the LIST project is to design, build, and operate an instrument on STSat-2 which will make images of the Sun from Earth orbit at the wavelength of the Hydrogen Lyman-a emission line at 121.6 nm. LIST has a simple design concept comprised of a small telescope to image the full disk of the Sun onto a CCD detector and a set of filters to isolate the 121.6 nm wavelength.

• 천문학논총
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.62-75
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• 1991

The small sized telescope can be best used if the control and observation can be made remotely and fully automatically by the aid of computers. We discuss the possible ways of automating the existing telescopes of various designs using personal computers. 'We have specifically designed the parts necessary to automate 16 inch Cassegrain Telescope at Pusan University Observatory. The degree of automation we have set for the present work is the interactive. remote observation including opening and shutting down of dome slit. The observational modes we have in mind are photoelectric photometry and CCD imaging. The basic components of the hardware are interface card for 16 or 32 bit IBM PC family of computers, relay switches for the control of telescope movements, stepping motor controller card for the control of observational equipments, and AID converter unit that accepts signal from sensors for the environment conditions such as temperature, wind speeds, precipitation, etc. We also have designed and built a photoelectric photometer that can be fully controlled by the command of a computer. Such observational equipment is also essential in order that the remote observation can be realized.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구과학회 2005년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.187-189
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• 2005

1990년 궤도에 진입한 허블우주망원경(이하 HST)이 수년내에 그 수명을 다하여 임무를 마치게 되면, 2007에서 2011년을 전후로 하여 미국, 일본과 유럽 연합은 각각 차세대 우주 망원경을 발사할 예정이다. 2007년 유럽연합의 Herschel, 2011년 미국의 JWST (James Webb Space Telescope), 그리고 2012년 일본의 SPICA가 차례로 발사되어 예정된 관측을 수행하게 된다. 기존의 HST가 가시광선 영역과 근자외선 영역을 주로 관측 했던 것과는 달리 이들 차세대 우주망원경들은 주로 근적외선에서 원적외선 영역까지를 관측하는 것을 주된 임무로 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 한국천문학자들이 이들 차세대 망원경의 제작에 참여하는 부분에 대해 소개하고, 이들 망원경을 활용한 적외선 천문학, 특히 항성의 형성과 관련된 부분에 관하여 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.261-267
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• 1998

We present a feasibility study of a data receiving station in Korea to be used for a 50cm UV space telescope proposed by CSA. The feasibility was investigated by examining the spacecraft visibiligy from four different cities in Korea, based on the orbital characteristics of the proposed spacecraft, i.e. inclination of $28.5^{\circ}$and circular orbit altitude of 690km. The satellite can be accessed from Korea about 4 times a day, each pass having the duration of to 9 minutes depending on the elevation mask and the latitude of each site. Provided that the X-Band signal can be retrieved from $10^{\circ}$ elevation. this study demonstrates that a ground station placed in any of the four cities can be used for a reasonable backup downlink of the science data gathered by the proposed UV space telescope.

• 천문학회보
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.100.1-100.1
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• 2014

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) has been participating in the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project since 2009. In 2014, GMT project has passed its important milestones toward construction of the telescope and observatory facilities. We will report the recent achievements and current status of the project in this contribution.

• 천문학회보
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.58.1-58.1
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• 2016

During the year 2016 the newly installed NYSC (National Youth Science Center) 1m optical telescope was officially commissioned. Calls for future observational programmes were announced. During test observations we carried out an observational project aimed at follow-up observations of transiting extrasolar planets. To predict future transits we developed the "TransitSearch" code implemented in Python utilizing transit information from the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. During three nights in April and June 2016 we observed planetary transits of HAT-P-3b and TrES-3b. Preliminary light curves of the transit events are presented alongside with best-fit models. From this experience we plan to improve the optical alignment and photometric performance by operating the 1m NYSC telescope in a strongly out-of-focus mode for transit observations.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.184-192
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• 2009

There are total eight degrees of freedom in designing a three-mirror system. If we correct four kinds of third order aberrations and the system should have the specified effective focal length, the remaining three degrees of freedom can be used for selecting a suitable configuration for a specific application. We suggest an analytic design procedure for a three-mirror telescope system which has a suitably sized secondary mirror and proper separations between mirrors, and is corrected for four kinds of third order aberrations, spherical aberration, coma, astigmatism, and field curvature. Two design examples are shown. One has a compact configuration with off-axial field, the other has relatively long configuration with annular ring field.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.58.1-58.1
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• 2017

National Youth Space Center has recently founded the Deokheung Optical Astronomy Observatory (DOAO) 1m Telescope, which accepts community observing applications since 2016. Standardization and calibration of the new observing facility are essential for astronomical research. In this poster, we present standardization processes and preliminary results for photometry of the Johnson-Cousins BVRI filter system. We selected sample data from a night in stable weather condition. After bias, dark, and flat corrections and photometry using ccdred and daophot package of IRAF, we derived standardized band pass parameters including color terms. The corrected photometry results of the BVRI filter system show reduced deviations from the standard magnitudes in the literature. In addition, we calculated atmospheric extinction coefficients and limiting magnitudes of the telescope system. We plan to extend these standardizing processes to flux calibration of narrow band filters, e.g. $H{\alpha}$ filter.