MOA-cam3: a wide-field mosaic CCD camera for a gravitational microlensing survey in New Zealand

Experimental Astronomy - Tập 22 Số 1-2 - Trang 51-66 - 2008
T. Sako1, Tomohiko Sekiguchi1, M. Sasaki1, Kazuhisa Okajima1, F. Abe1, I. A. Bond2, A. Fukui3, Y. Itow1, K. Kamiya1, P. M. Kilmartin3, K. Masuda1, Y. Matsubara1, Y. Muraki1, Nicholas J. Rattenbury4, D. J. Sullivan5, T. Sumi1, P. J. Tristram3, Tatsuya Yanagisawa6, P. C. M. Yock7
1Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
2Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
4Jodrell Bank Observatory, The University of Manchester, Macclesfield, UK
5School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
6Advanced Space Technology Research Group, Institute of Aerospace Technology, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tokyo, Japan
7Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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