The BINA collaboration: science at the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Jan Cuypers,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Ronny Blomme,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Yves Frémat,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Martin Groenewegen,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Patricia Lampens,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Alex Lobel,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Thierry Pauwels,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Griet Van de Steene,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Peter van Hoof,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Abstract
The Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy and Astrophysics (BINA) is a collaboration between Indian and Belgian astronomical institutes with the main aim to optimize the scientific output of the Indo-Belgian telescopes, being the 4.0-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope and the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope. These new facilities are both located at the Devasthal Observatory near Nainital, India. In this contribution, we introduce projects that are of scientific interest for colleagues of the department “Astronomy and Astrophysics” of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). It serves as an invitation for Indian astronomers to participate. We highlight how these projects could benefit from observations with the Indo-Belgian telescopes by using instruments from the first-generation (currently offered) and/or the next-generation (development or design phase). We show that, from an ROB point-of-view, the BINA would be the most successful if the 3.6-m DOT would be equipped with an efficient optical high-resolution spectrograph.
Keywords : astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, observatories, photometry, spectroscopy
Pour citer cet article
Peter De Cat, Jan Cuypers, Ronny Blomme, Yves Frémat, Martin Groenewegen, Patricia Lampens, Alex Lobel, Thierry Pauwels, Griet Van de Steene & Peter van Hoof, «The BINA collaboration: science at the Royal Observatory of Belgium», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 87 - Année 2018, Actes de colloques, First Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy & Astrophysics (BINA) workshop - November 2016 - Nainital, India, 92 - 101 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=7528.
