Call for Proposals 'Astronomy observations' DOT-2020-C2

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Call | Belspo NL FR EN Other official information and services: www.belgium.be Home News Jobs Agenda Calls Publications About us Contact ☰ Calls BELSPO - ARIES (India, Space) agreement 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope Call for Proposals 'Astronomy observations' DOT-2020-C2 Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) invites proposals from the astronomical community of India and Belgium for observations with 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) for the observing cycle from October 2020 to January 2021 (DOT-2020-C2). The deadline for receiving these proposals is 23:59:59 IST (UTC+5.5 hrs), Sunday, August 09, 2020. India has 93% share in the telescope time of which 33% is guaranteed to ARIES, and the Belgian share is 7%. The Principal Investigator of the proposals should have affiliations at Indian or Belgian academic institutions and/or universities. The 3.6 m DOT telescope is located at Devasthal in the district of Nainital, India and it has been designed to achieve seeing-limited observations of astronomical sources at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. The telescope currently offers four instruments for carrying out imaging and spectroscopic observations of celestial sources. The IMAGER is an optical imaging instrument covering wavelengths ranging from 400 to 900 nm whereas the TIRCAM2 can provide near infrared imaging observations from 1 to 3.7 microns. The ADFOSC is a low resolution spectrograph and camera having sensitivity in the wavelength rang