Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory Site Management Plan" (PDF). University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  2. ↑ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...202.3803Y
  3. ↑ http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/GRB-09-05.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/239453/hawaii_telescopes_record_cosmic_explosion/
  5. ↑ http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/07/25/news/story4.html
  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"
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