- Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring
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Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring or MAGNUM is project started in 1995, and with observations starting in 2000 using 2m reflecting telescope for scientific study of active galactic nuclei. [1] The telescope is run by the University of Tokyo and other Japanese academic institutions. [2] MAGNUM was one of the telescope that observed a cosmic explosion billions of years away in 2005. [3] The telescope is for long-term study of the size of the universe, [4] for example it studied the Seyfert 1 galaxies NGC 5548, NGC 4051, NGC 3227, and NGC 7469 [5]
The telescope can view optical-infrared (near infrared0 and is located at the Haleakala Observatory.
References
- ^ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...202.3803Y
- ^ http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/GRB-09-05.htm
- ^ http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/239453/hawaii_telescopes_record_cosmic_explosion/
- ^ http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/07/25/news/story4.html
- ^ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499326 The Astrophysical Journal, 639:46–63, 2006 March 1 "Reverberation Measurements of the Inner Radius of the Dust Torus in Nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxies"
Categories:- Telescopes
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