Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring Explained

Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring or MAGNUM was a project completed in 2008, that used a 2 meter (78.7 inch) telescope at Haleakala, Hawaii.[1] The project started in 1995, and with telescope observations starting in 2000 for the scientific study of active galactic nuclei.[2] It was run by the University of Tokyo, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Australian National University.[1] [3] MAGNUM was one of the telescopes that observed a cosmic explosion billions of years away in 2005.[4] The telescope was used for a long-term study of the size of the universe;[5] for example it studied the Seyfert 1 galaxies NGC 5548, NGC 4051, NGC 3227, and NGC 7469[6] The telescope was located at the Haleakala Observatory and was installed in north dome previously used by LURE.[1]

This was an astronomy project that used an automated telescope to look for AGN at visible and near infrared wavelengths.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory Site Management Plan . 2010-06-08 . University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy . 2012-04-26.
  2. 2003AAS...202.3803Y . The MAGNUM (Multicolor Active Galactic NUclei Monitoring) Project . American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #202 . 35 . 752 . 2003 . Yoshii, Y. . Kobayashi, Y. . Minezaki, T. .
  3. Web site: UH Institute for Astronomy Press Release.
  4. Web site: Hawaii Telescopes Record Cosmic Explosion - Space News - redOrbit . www.redorbit.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110522235108/http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/239453/hawaii_telescopes_record_cosmic_explosion/ . 2011-05-22.
  5. Web site: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News.
  6. 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"
  7. Kobayashi. Y.. Yoshii. Y.. Minezaki. T.. 2004-10-01. MAGNUM project: four years of operation of the fully automated observatory. Astronomische Nachrichten. en. 325. 6–8. 537–539. 10.1002/asna.200410275. 1521-3994. 2004AN....325..537K.

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