COO3 - Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure |
Speaker_ |
Chu, Yaoquan |
Talk _ |
The Scientific Prospect and Project Progress of the LAMOST |
Abstract _ |
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a meridian reflecting Schmidt telescope with a clear aperture of 4-meter£¬focal length of 20-meter and a field of view of 5-degree. Using active optics technique to control its reflecting corrector makes LAMOST a unique astronomical instrument in combining a large aperture with a wide field of view. The available large focal plane of 1.75-meter in diameter may accommodate up to 4000 fibers, by which the collected light of distant and faint celestial objects is fed into the spectrographs, promising a very high spectrum acquiring rate of several ten-thousands of spectra per night. The telescope will be located at the Xinglong Station of Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a national facility open to the whole astronomical community. The spectroscopic survey carried out by LAMOST of tens of millions of galaxies and others will make substantial contribution to the study of extra-galactic astrophysics and cosmology, such as galaxies, quasars and the large-scale structure of the universe. Its spectroscopic survey of large number of stars will make substantial contribution to the study of stellar astrophysics and the structure and evolution of The Galaxy. Its spectroscopic survey combining with the surveys in other wavebands, such as radio, infrared, X-ray and -ray will make substantial contribution to the cross-identification of multi-waveband of celestial objects |