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| author | Song, Xuan Wang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Jin Li, Jian Guo, Jincheng Xiang, Danfeng Li, Xin Liu, Cheng Ning, Yuanhang Ge, Zhishuai Shao, Zhenzhen Zheng, Xiaochen Yang, Yi Zhang, Lei Shi, Yaqing Zhao, Dongyao Zeng, Xiangyun Mo, Jun Song, Tengfei Fan, Yufeng Liu, Yu Wang, Jingxing He, Shousheng Wangdui, Ciren Zhang, Jujia Zhang, Xuefei Ye, Kai Bai, Jinming Jiang, Xiaojun Zhang, Xiaoming Qiu, Peng Zhang, Jicheng |
| author_facet | Song, Xuan Wang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Jin Li, Jian Guo, Jincheng Xiang, Danfeng Li, Xin Liu, Cheng Ning, Yuanhang Ge, Zhishuai Shao, Zhenzhen Zheng, Xiaochen Yang, Yi Zhang, Lei Shi, Yaqing Zhao, Dongyao Zeng, Xiangyun Mo, Jun Song, Tengfei Fan, Yufeng Liu, Yu Wang, Jingxing He, Shousheng Wangdui, Ciren Zhang, Jujia Zhang, Xuefei Ye, Kai Bai, Jinming Jiang, Xiaojun Zhang, Xiaoming Qiu, Peng Zhang, Jicheng |
| contents | The R2Pub telescope, built by the Beijing Planetarium, is a 60 cm equatorial binocular telescope located at the Daocheng site of Yunnan Observatories in China, at an altitude of about 4700 m. This paper presents an overview of the R2Pub telescope system, including its design, instrumentation, and survey capabilities, and reports an initial evaluation of its system performance. R2Pub is a prime-focus binocular system, with each optical tube covering a field of view of approximately 18 square degrees. It is designed to detect a wide range of transient and variable sources in the local universe, such as variable stars, eclipsing binaries, supernovae, gamma-ray burst afterglows, tidal disruption events, active galactic nuclei, and other unknown transients. The observatory infrastructure, including the dome, equatorial mount, optical tubes, and associated subsystems, has been fully constructed and installed, and the system has entered the commissioning phase. Benefiting from the high-altitude location, good seeing conditions, and dark sky background at the Daocheng site, performance tests during commissioning show that the R2Pub system can reach a 5-sigma limiting magnitude of about 18.7 mag in the Pan-STARRS r' band with a 60 s exposure. Ongoing observations with R2Pub are expected to contribute to studies of variable and transient phenomena and to enhance public outreach in astronomy. The binocular design enables simultaneous dual-band observations, providing instantaneous color information for transient sources and improving the classification and physical characterization of their properties and evolution. |
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| spellingShingle | The R2Pub Telescopes for Surveying: An Overview and Performance Evaluation of the System Song, Xuan Wang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Jin Li, Jian Guo, Jincheng Xiang, Danfeng Li, Xin Liu, Cheng Ning, Yuanhang Ge, Zhishuai Shao, Zhenzhen Zheng, Xiaochen Yang, Yi Zhang, Lei Shi, Yaqing Zhao, Dongyao Zeng, Xiangyun Mo, Jun Song, Tengfei Fan, Yufeng Liu, Yu Wang, Jingxing He, Shousheng Wangdui, Ciren Zhang, Jujia Zhang, Xuefei Ye, Kai Bai, Jinming Jiang, Xiaojun Zhang, Xiaoming Qiu, Peng Zhang, Jicheng Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The R2Pub telescope, built by the Beijing Planetarium, is a 60 cm equatorial binocular telescope located at the Daocheng site of Yunnan Observatories in China, at an altitude of about 4700 m. This paper presents an overview of the R2Pub telescope system, including its design, instrumentation, and survey capabilities, and reports an initial evaluation of its system performance. R2Pub is a prime-focus binocular system, with each optical tube covering a field of view of approximately 18 square degrees. It is designed to detect a wide range of transient and variable sources in the local universe, such as variable stars, eclipsing binaries, supernovae, gamma-ray burst afterglows, tidal disruption events, active galactic nuclei, and other unknown transients. The observatory infrastructure, including the dome, equatorial mount, optical tubes, and associated subsystems, has been fully constructed and installed, and the system has entered the commissioning phase. Benefiting from the high-altitude location, good seeing conditions, and dark sky background at the Daocheng site, performance tests during commissioning show that the R2Pub system can reach a 5-sigma limiting magnitude of about 18.7 mag in the Pan-STARRS r' band with a 60 s exposure. Ongoing observations with R2Pub are expected to contribute to studies of variable and transient phenomena and to enhance public outreach in astronomy. The binocular design enables simultaneous dual-band observations, providing instantaneous color information for transient sources and improving the classification and physical characterization of their properties and evolution. |
| title | The R2Pub Telescopes for Surveying: An Overview and Performance Evaluation of the System |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13587 |