Open AccessThe BINA collaboration: science at the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Author(s) -
P. De Cat,
J. Cuypers,
R. Blomme,
Y. Frémat,
M. A. T. Groenewegen,
P. Lampens,
A. Lobel,
T. Pauwels,
Griet Van de Steene,
P. A. M. van Hoof
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bulletin de la société royale des sciences de liège
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1783-5720
DOI - 10.25518/0037-9565.7528
Subject(s) - observatory , spectrograph , telescope , astronomy , physics , library science , remote sensing , geography , computer science , spectral line
The Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy and Astrophysics (BINA) is a collaboration between Indian and Belgian astronomical institutes with the main aim to optimize the scientific output of the Indo-Belgian telescopes, being the 4.0-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope and the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope. These new facilities are both located at the Devasthal Observatory near Nainital, India. In this contribution, we introduce projects that are of scientific interest for colleagues of the department “Astronomy and Astrophysics” of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). It serves as an invitation for Indian astronomers to participate. We highlight how these projects could benefit from observations with the Indo-Belgian telescopes by using instruments from the first-generation (currently offered) and/or the next-generation (development or design phase). We show that, from an ROB point-of-view, the BINA would be the most successful if the 3.6-m DOT would be equipped with an efficient optical high-resolution spectrograph.