CASTLE: Performances and Science Cases Arxiv:2006.13956V1 [Astro-Ph.IM] 24 Jun 2020
CASTLE: performances and science cases S. Lombardo1, F. Prada2, E. Hugot1, S. Basa1, J. M. Bautista6, S. Boissier1, A. Boselli1, A. Bosma1, J. C. Cuillandre3, P. A. Duc4, M. Ferrari1, N. Grosso1, L. Izzo5, K. Joaquina1, Junais1, J. Koda6, A. Lamberts7, G. R. Lemaitre1, A. Longobardi1, D. Martínez-Delgado2, E. Muslimov1, J. L. Ortiz2, E. Perez2, D. Porquet1, B. Sicardy8, and P. Vola1 1Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France. 2Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía, E-18080 Granada, Spain. 3AIM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Observatoire de Paris, PSL University, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. 4Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, 11 Rue de l’Université, F-67000 Strasbourg, France. 5DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Lyngbyvej 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. 6Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA. 7Université Cote d’Azur, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Laboratoire ARTEMIS, France. 8LESIA/Observatoire de Paris, univ. PSL, CNRS, Paris, France. June 26, 2020 Abstract We present here the Calar Alto Schmidt-Lemaitre Telescope (CASTLE) con- cept, a technology demonstrator for curved detectors, that will be installed at the Calar Alto Observatory (Spain). This telescope has a wide field of view (2◦.36×1◦.56) and a design, optimised to generate a Point Spread Function with very low level wings and reduced ghost features, which makes it considerably less susceptible to several systematic effects usually affecting similar systems. These characteristics are particularly suited to study the low surface brightness Universe.
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