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Chair: Maximilian Stritzinger
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Tapio Pursimo (nordic optical Telescope)26/05/2026, 13:15Oral
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) has been a success story of Nordic
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collaboration in astronomy. Multi-messenger and
time-domain astronomy have been popular amongst our users. Examples
being nightly
monitoring of gravitational lens for two years; transient followups
from sky surveys such as ZTF, Gaia, SVOM etc. and monitoring of
TeV sources, jointly with MAGIC.
Recently NOT has been the... -
Julia Martikainen (Nordic Optical Telescope)26/05/2026, 13:30Oral
The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is a 2.56-m optical telescope located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma, Spain. This contribution gives a short overview of the observing modes of the telescope, including imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry, and highlights its rapid response mode (RRM) and non-sidereal tracking capabilities. The NOT’s versatility and efficiency...
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Johan Fynbo (Niels Bohr Institute)26/05/2026, 13:45Oral
I will present the status of the NOT Transient Explorer - the new instrument for the Nordic Optical Telescope that is under construction with contributions from several Nordic partners. I will describe the design of the instrument, its capabilities, and outline the main remaining challenges still ahead of us.
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Joonas Viuho (NBI, NOT)26/05/2026, 14:00Oral
NOT has come to a mature age soon celebrating its 40 years in operation. Throughout the years NOT has remained as a highly competitive facility due to its advanced design, versatile instrument suite and control system, and flexible operations model. To ensure continued high level of competitiveness for the coming decades, it is time to consider technical updates and upgrades of the telescope....
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