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Unveiling photometric transients with the ILMT and their follow-up using DOT
Priyanshi Kumari, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +10
The two 4-m class telescopes at the Devasthal site in India are complementary: the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is dedicated to the discovery of new transient p…
From Sky to Science: Time Domain Astronomy with the ILMT Survey
Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +10
The PyLMT transient detection pipeline has been operational since November 2023 and has detected 10,000 transients and variable objects in ILMT images in near real time. The…
Modelling the Point Spread Function of ILMT images
Naveen Dukiya, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
We have devised an approach to model the empirical Point Spread Function (PSF) of the images taken with the 4-meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT). The characteristic…
Demonstrating the Time-Domain Capabilities of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: An Early Census of Transient and Variable Detections
Kumar Pranshu, Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi +11
The PyLMT transient detection pipeline has been operational since November 2023, detecting transient and variable objects in the ILMT images in almost real time. Using the image su…
Astrometric Calibration of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Observations
Vibhore Negi, Naveen Dukiya, Gokul Singh Mehra +12
The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a dedicated time domain survey telescope that continuously scans the zenithal sky over the Indian Himalayas in the g', r' an…
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: Construction, operation, and science
Jean Surdej, Paul Hickson, Kuntal Misra +26
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project was motivated by the need for an inexpensive 4 metre diameter optical telescope that could be devoted entirely to astronomi…
PyLMT: A transient detection pipeline for the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope
Kumar Pranshu, Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi +7
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m aperture, zenith-pointing telescope with a field-of-view of 22', situated in the foothills of the Himalayas. The telescope…
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: a brief history and some preliminary scientific results
Jean Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +12
The present article is based upon an invited talk delivered at the occasion of the inauguration of the 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) which took place in Devasthal…
SunPhot: Preparations for an upcoming quasar variability survey with the International Liquid Mirror Telescope
Ethen Sun, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
Recent research suggests a correlation between the variability and intrinsic brightness of quasars. If calibrated, this could lead to the use of quasars on the cosmic distance ladd…
Survey of Variables with the ILMT
Baldeep Grewal, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
Nestled in the mountains of Northern India, is a 4-metre rotating dish of liquid mercury. Over a 10-year period, the International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) will survey 117 sq…
Observation of mulitply imaged quasars with the 4-m ILMT
Talat Akhunov, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Ermanno Borra +12
Gravitationally lensed quasars (GLQs) are known to potentially provide an independent way of determining the value of the Hubble-Lemaître parameter , to probe the dark matte…
Follow-up strategy of ILMT discovered supernovae
Brajesh Kumar, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) facility continuously scans the same sky strip (22 wide) on each night with a fixed pointing towards the zenith d…
Astrometric and photometric calibrators for the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope
Naveen Dukiya, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter class survey telescope. It achieved its first light on 29 April 2022 and is now undergoing the commissionin…
A year-long representation of the ILMT observations in different coordinate systems
Monalisa Dubey, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is the first optical survey telescope in India that performs zenithal observations of a 22 wide strip of the sky. To determin…
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope project
Jean Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +12
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project is a scientific collaboration in observational astrophysics between the Li{è}ge Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics (L…
Serendipitous Detection of Orbital Debris by the International Liquid Mirror Telescope: First Results
Paul Hickson, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
Orbital debris presents a growing risk to space operations, and is becoming a significant source of contamination of astronomical images. Much of the debris population is uncatalog…
Detection and Identification of Asteroids with the 4-m ILMT
Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +12
A very unique strength of the Devasthal Observatory is its capability of detecting optical transients with the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) and to rapidly follo…
Accessibility of the ILMT survey data
Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) continuously scans a 22 wide strip of the zenithal sky and records the images in three broadband filters (g', r' and i') usin…
Automated transient detection in the context of the 4m ILMT
Kumar Pranshu, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
In the era of sky surveys like Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) and ILMT, a plethora of image data wil…
An automated photometric pipeline for the ILMT data
Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov, Ermanno Borra +11
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is…
Necessity of a TDI optical corrector for ILMT observations
Vibhore Negi, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) has recently become operational at the Devasthal Observatory of ARIES, Nainital, India. The ILMT observes in the Time delay integra…
First light preparations of the 4m ILMT
Brajesh Kumar, Hitesh Kumar, Khushal Singh Dangwal +8
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a zenith-pointing optical observing facility at ARIES Devasthal observatory (Uttarakhand, India). The first light preparatory…
Astrometric and photometric standard candidates for the upcoming 4-m ILMT survey
Naveen Dukiya, Kuntal Misra, Bikram Pradhan +5
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter class survey telescope that has recently achieved first light and is expected to swing into full operations by 1st Jan…
The upcoming 4m ILMT facility and data reduction pipeline testing
Brajesh Kumar, Vibhore Negi, Bhavya Ailawadhi +5
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) installation activities have recently been completed at the Devasthal observatory (Uttarakhand, India). The ILMT will perform co…