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Grant Award View - GA28882
A robotic telescope leveraging global science from Veloce
GA ID:
GA28882
Agency:
Australian Research Council
Approval Date:
27-Nov-2018
Publish Date:
18-Dec-2018
Category:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Research
Grant Term:
5-Jul-2019 to 31-May-2022
Original: 1-Jan-2019 to 31-Dec-2019
Value (AUD):
$500,000.00
(GST inclusive where applicable)
Variations:
- GA28882-V6 - Variation to Grant (21-Apr-2022 )
- GA28882-V5 - Variation to Grant (19-Oct-2021 )
- GA28882-V4 - Variation to Grant (2-Aug-2021 )
- GA28882-V3 - Variation to Grant (6-Apr-2021 )
- GA28882-V2 - Variation to Grant (5-May-2020 )
- GA28882-V1 - Variation to Grant (16-Jul-2019 )
One-off/Ad hoc:
No
Aggregate Grant Award:
No
PBS Program Name:
ARC 18/19 Linkage
Grant Program:
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Grant Activity:
A robotic telescope leveraging global science from Veloce
Purpose:
This project aims to Implement RAPTOR, a dedicated, robotic telescope allowing the use of state-of-the-art Veloce spectrograph. This project will leverage substantial value from Australia’s existing investment in the Veloce facility by allowing Veloce’s use on the 290 nights per year when the Anglo-Australian Telescope is being used by other instruments. Veloce+RAPTOR will enable a new class of transformative science that demands high-cadence, repeated observations over many nights. Expected outcomes include a broad sampling of the properties of exoplanets around nearby stars, critical for informing theories of planet formation, as well as new data addressing a wide range of astronomical questions requiring high-resolution optical spectroscopy of bright stars. Combined with data from the $300m Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, and leveraging the existing $5.9m investment in the Veloce instrument, the RAPTOR telescope will place Australia at the forefront of the global pursuit of the question of how common life is in the Universe.
GO ID:
GO Title:
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities for funding commencing in 2019
Internal Reference ID:
LE19 Round 1
Selection Process:
Targeted or Restricted Competitive
Confidentiality - Contract:
No
Confidentiality - Outputs:
No
Grant Recipient Details
Recipient Name:
Macquarie University
Recipient ABN:
90 952 801 237
Grant Recipient Location
Suburb:
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Town/City:
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Postcode:
2109
State/Territory:
NSW
Country:
AUSTRALIA
Grant Delivery Location
State/Territory:
NSW
Postcode:
2109
Country:
AUSTRALIA