BOMBOLO: A 3-arms optical imager for SOAR Observatory

Dani Guzmán; Rodolfo Angeloni; Thomas Puzia; Damien Jones; Andrés Jordán; Timo Anguita; Susan Benecchi; Eduardo Garcés

doi:10.1117/12.2056454

24 July 2014 BOMBOLO: A 3-arms optical imager for SOAR Observatory

Dani Guzmán, Rodolfo Angeloni, Thomas Puzia, Damien Jones, Andrés Jordán, Timo Anguita, Susan Benecchi, Eduardo Garcés

Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91475V (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056454
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

BOMBOLO is a new multi-passband visitor instrument for the SOAR observatory. It is a three-arm imager covering the near-UV and optical wavelengths. The three arms work simultaneously and independently, providing synchronized imaging capability for rapid astronomical events. BOMBOLO leading science cases are: 1) Simultaneous Multiband Flickering Studies of Accretion Phenomena; 2) Near UV/Optical Diagnostics of Stellar Evolutionary Phases; 3) Exoplanetary Transits; 4) Microlensing Follow-Up and 5) Solar Systems Studies. The instrument is at the Conceptual Design stage, having been approved by the SOAR Board of Directors as a visitor instrument in 2012 and having been granted full funding from CONICYT, the Chilean State Agency of Research, in 2013. The Design Phase has begun and will be completed in late 2014, followed by a construction phase in 2015 and 2016A, with expected Commissioning in 2016B and 2017A.

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Dani Guzmán, Rodolfo Angeloni, Thomas Puzia, Damien Jones, Andrés Jordán, Timo Anguita, Susan Benecchi, and Eduardo Garcés "BOMBOLO: A 3-arms optical imager for SOAR Observatory", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91475V (24 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056454

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