The Rapid Eye Mount (REM)
Italian telescope has been installed at La Silla
Observatory, Chile, at the end of 2002. It has been been
conceived and designed to immediately point and observe
the Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) detected by satellites (SWIFT
in particular). Its immediate datat gathering capability
and its accurate astrometry in the optical and in the
near-infrared will also alow an early alert and pointing
of the very large telescope (VLT) of the European
Southern Observatory in Chile. At one of the Nasmith
foci of the telescope a dichroic splits the beam in two.
The beam transmitted by the dichroic (0.9-2.3 microns)
feeds an high throughput Near-IR camera called REMIR,
while
the reflected visible light (0.45-0.9 microns) feed the
ROSS (REM Optical Slitless Spectrograph), a device
dedicated to monitor the evolution of the continuum of
afterglow spectra. The group of Perugia was involved in
the construction and control software of ROSS.
More informations on REM are reported
in the document below:
- REM:
ESO-Messenger Article (pdf)
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