Getting ready for the first competitive open call for observing time with JPCam-JST250

  Starting Date: 21/11/2024

Venue: Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) / Virtual
Organizer: Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) / RIA
Abstract contribution submission deadline: 4th November 2024
Registration deadline: 9th November 2024
Registration and Abstract Submission Form: Closed!
Confirmed List of Participants: Here(last update 11/11/2024)
Program already available: Here
JPCam Observing Tools: Here
Visit to the Observatorio Astrofísico Javalambre on November 23rd: A visit to the observatory is planned for Saturday, November 23rd, following the meeting. If you are interested in joining, please email jzaragoza@cefca.es.

Following integration, commissioning and beginning of scientific operation of JPCam, the wide-field 1.2Gpix camera integrated at the Cassegrain focus of the JST250 telescope, the ICTS Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is preparing the first competitive, open call for observing time with this new facility. The call for proposals is being planned for the first half of 2025.

The JST250 is a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with a 2.55m primary mirror and an altazimuth mount. The focal plane corresponds to a
Cassegrain design. The M1 and M2 mirrors have a hyperbolic aspheric surface. The telescope is equipped with a field corrector behind thecentral hole of M1, consisting of 3 fused silica lenses with 4 aspheric surfaces and diameters between 500–600mm. The two mirrors and the three lenses are designed to optimize the quality of the polychromatic image and maintain low distortion across the entire field of view, which has a diameter of 3 degrees (476mm).

JPCam is the main scientific instrument of the JST250 telescope. The camera is equipped with a mosaic of 14 state-of-the-art detectors. These are large-format, low noise CCD detectors with 9,216×9,232 pixels of 10μm developed by Teledyne-e2V. JPCam is installed at the Cassegrain focus of the JST250 telescope and provides a large effective field of view of about 3.4 square degrees with a pixel scale of 0.2267 “/pixel.

JPCam is equipped with 54 narrowband filters (~14.5nm FWHM) that are contiguous and equally spaced between 370 and 920nm, plus 2 broadband filters in both extremes of the optical wavelength range. These filters, designed to allow for panoramic pectrophotometric observations, are distributed across 4 filter trays, 14 filters per tray, so that each detector observes through one of them. Three additional filter trays, each one equipped with 14 identical copies of Sloan g, r and i, respectively, are also available. Therefore, the observation strategy requires a prior understanding of the distribution of the filters in the instrument as well as the use of tools created for defining observational strategies with JPCam.

The objective of this meeting is to present to the scientific community the upcoming call for competitive open time with JPCam
installed on the JST250 telescope. The meeting will present the details of the call, as well as the operation and modes of the JPCam instrument and the set of specific tools created to support users in preparing their observation proposals. At the same time, the community is encouraged to present the scientific projects envisaged with this large field of view multifilter OAJ facility that is going to be offered, to trigger discussion on the technical aspects that will help in the definition of the potential proposed programs. We therefore welcome contributions from the entire community, from all fields, of current examples or concrete ideas of scientific projects to be conducted with JPCam.

Registration Fee: This meeting is supported by the RIA. The registration fee is waived.

Venue: The meeting will take place in Teruel, with the possibility to attend it virtually. The preferred attending (in person/virtual) can be selected in the registration form.

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC):

• Javier Zaragoza Cardiel (CEFCA)
• Antonio Marín Franch (CEFCA)
• Carlos López San-Juan (CEFCA)
• Héctor Vázquez Ramió (CEFCA)
• Mireia Montes Quiles (ICE-CSIC)
• Rosa González Delgado (IAA)
• Adriano Campo Bagatin (UA)
• Aurora Sicilia Aguilar (University of Dundee)

Local Organizing Committee (LOC):

• Javier Zaragoza Cardiel
• Juan Antonio Fernández Ontiveros
• Luisa Valdivielso Casas
• Rahna Payyasseri Thanduparackal
• Jairo Andres Alzate Trujillo
• Teet Kuutma
• Fabiola Carolina Hernández Pérez
• Tamara Civera Lorenzo
• Ana López Colás

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Important! Please be advised that train and bus services between Valencia with other cities may experience disruptions due to recent severe weather conditions. Certain routes through Valencia may be temporarily unavailable. We recommend checking the current status of your planned route if you intend to reach Teruel via Valencia. Alternatively, consider using routes through Zaragoza or Madrid if feasible.

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