Astronomy:Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring
Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring or MAGNUM was a project completed in 2008, that used a 2 meter (78.7 inch) telescope at Haleakala, Hawaii.[1] The project started in 1995, and with telescope observations starting in 2000 for the scientific study of active galactic nuclei.[2] It was run by the University of Tokyo, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Australian National University.[1][3] MAGNUM was one of the telescopes that observed a cosmic explosion billions of years away in 2005.[4] The telescope was used for a long-term study of the size of the universe;[5] for example it studied the Seyfert 1 galaxies NGC 5548, NGC 4051, NGC 3227, and NGC 7469[6] The telescope was located at the Haleakala Observatory and was installed in north dome previously used by LURE.[1] This was an astronomy project that used an automated telescope to look for AGN at visible and near infrared wavelengths.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory Site Management Plan". University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy. 2010-06-08. http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/haleakalanew/LRDP/images/HO%20Mgmt%20Plan-060810.pdf. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ↑ Yoshii, Y.; Kobayashi, Y.; Minezaki, T. (2003). "The MAGNUM (Multicolor Active Galactic NUclei Monitoring) Project". American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #202 35: 752. Bibcode: 2003AAS...202.3803Y.
- ↑ "UH Institute for Astronomy Press Release". http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/GRB-09-05.htm.
- ↑ "Hawaii Telescopes Record Cosmic Explosion - Space News - redOrbit". http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/239453/hawaii_telescopes_record_cosmic_explosion/.
- ↑ "Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News". http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/07/25/news/story4.html.
- ↑ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499326 The Astrophysical Journal, 639:46–63, 2006 March 1 "Reverberation Measurements of the Inner Radius of the Dust Torus in Nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxies"
- ↑ Kobayashi, Y.; Yoshii, Y.; Minezaki, T. (2004-10-01). "MAGNUM project: four years of operation of the fully automated observatory" (in en). Astronomische Nachrichten 325 (6–8): 537–539. doi:10.1002/asna.200410275. ISSN 1521-3994. Bibcode: 2004AN....325..537K.
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