Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LE0453817
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Australian Membership of the International Gemini Partnership. The International Gemini Partnership is an intergovernmental consortium formed to build and operate two 8-metre optical/infrared telescopes, one in Chile and the other in Hawaii. Australia joined the IGP in May 1998, taking approximately 5% of the partnership. The Gemini telescopes have been carefully engineered to exploit the superb atmospheric conditions at both sites, allowing users to address key astronomical problems in ways not previously possible. Through membership of Gemini, Australian astronomers have access to the world-class facilities necessary to maintain their high international profile and the great public visibility in Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and also to enhance the national capacity to construct advanced scientific instrumentation. Australia is currently building one of the instruments. Note: in A7.1 GAMS incorrectly forces integer days/month. In full operation Australian astronomers will receive approximately 25 nights per year.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2004
End Date: 12-2005
Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Funding Amount: $1,849,438.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astronomy And Astrophysics | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Instruments And Techniques |
