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MAIA, a three-channel imager for asteroseismology: instrument design

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Gert Raskin, Steven Bloemen, Johan Morren, Jesus Perez Padilla, Saskia Prins, Wim Pessemier, Jeroen Vandersteen, Florian Merges
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Roy {O}stensen, Hans Van Winckel, Conny Aerts

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Submitted 8 Oct 2013

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The authors' main claim We describe the design of the instrument, discuss key components, and report on its performance and first results.

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CitationConny Aerts, Florian Merges, Gert Raskin, Hans Van Winckel, Jeroen Vandersteen, Jesus Perez Padilla, Johan Morren, Roy {\O}stensen, Saskia Prins, Steven Bloemen, Wim Pessemier. "MAIA, a three-channel imager for asteroseismology: instrument design." arXiv:1310.2266 (2013). https://pith.science/paper/T22YPAUT
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MAIA, an acronym for Mercator Advanced Imager for Asteroseismology, is a three-channel instrument that targets fast-cadence three-colour photometry, installed at the 1.2-m Mercator telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). This instrument observes a 9.4x14.1arcmin2 Field-of-View simultaneously in three wavelength bands on three large frame-transfer CCDs. These detectors were developed for ESA's cancelled Eddington space mission and were offered on permanent loan to the Institute of Astronomy (KU Leuven, Belgium). MAIA uses its own ugr photometric system that is a crude approximation of the SDSS system. The instrument is designed to perform multi-colour observations for asteroseismology, with specific emphasis on subdwarf and white dwarf single and binary stars. We describe the design of the instrument, discuss key components, and report on its performance and first results.

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MAIA, an acronym for Mercator Advanced Imager for Asteroseismology, is a three-channel instrument that targets fast-cadence three-colour photometry, installed at the 1.2-m Mercator telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). This instrument observes a 9.4x14.1arcmin2 Field-of-View simultaneously in three wavelength bands on three large frame-transfer CCDs. These detectors were developed for ESA's cancelled Eddington space mission and were offered on permanent loan to the Institute of Astronomy (KU Leuven, Belgium). MAIA uses its own ugr photometric system that is a crude approximation of the SDSS system. The instrument is designed to perform multi-colour observations for asteroseismology, with specific emphasis on subdwarf and white dwarf single and binary stars. We describe the design of the instrument, discuss key components, and report on its performance and first results.

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