5–9 Jul 2026
University of Canterbury
Pacific/Auckland timezone

Muztagh-Ata 1.93-meter Synergy Telescope and lensing time delay

9 Jul 2026, 14:50
20m
Room E6 (Rātā / Engineering Core Building, University of Canterbury)

Room E6

Rātā / Engineering Core Building, University of Canterbury

63 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
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Speaker

Prof. Bin Hu (Beijing Normal University)

Description

Transient lensing is a promising phenomenon for the time-domain cosmology era. Compared with the static lensing observation, transient lensing can provide us time delay measurement which directly reflect the gravitational potential instead of the gradient of the potential. However, different sources of transient lensing systems have their own pros and cons. In this talk, I will introduce our recent efforts on observing glQSO time delays, glSN simulations. For glQSO monitoring, I will introduce the Muztagh-Ata 1.93-meter Synergy Telescope (MOST), which is an optical telescope currently under construction through a collaboration between Beijing Normal University, the Xinjiang Observatory, the Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, and Xinjiang University. It is equipped with three-band simultaneous photometry (Sloan g, r, i) and medium-resolution (f/8 = 5000) spectroscopy, making it ideal for precise follow-up observations and time-domain monitoring.

Research Area Cosmology: late universe

Author

Prof. Bin Hu (Beijing Normal University)

Presentation materials