Overview of Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project

• USUDA Tomonori

  National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• TMT計画概要
• TMT ケイカク ガイヨウ

Abstract

The TMT is a project to build an extremely large 30-meter optical/infrared telescope under the collaboration of five partner countries including Japan, USA, Canada, China, and India. In 2014, an agreement was executed among the participating organizations to found TMT International Observatory (TIO) to construct TMT on Maunakea. The onsite construction was halted because the supreme court of Hawai'i ruled in favor of a claim that cited a problem in the approval process of the land use permit for the Maunakea Conservation District and remanded it in December 2015. Although this has caused delays to construction onsite, mass production of the telescope primary mirror, design works of the telescope subsystems including science instruments have proceeded according to plan in the partner countries. The land use permit was approved again in September 2017, TIO is preparing to start on-site construction at Maunakea in 2018.

Journal

• The Review of Laser Engineering

  The Review of Laser Engineering 46 (6), 300-, 2018

  The Laser Society of Japan

Keywords

• Astronomy
• Extremely Large Telescope
• Exoplanet
• First Star
• Hawai'i

Details

• CRID: 1391131406290893056
• NII Article ID: 130007957876
• NII Article ID: 40021611868
• NII Book ID: AN00255326
• DOI: 10.2184/lsj.46.6_300
• ISSN: 13496603
• ISSN: 03870200
• NDL BIB ID: 029130877
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I029130877
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/lsj/46/6/46_300/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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