TAUKAM stands for "TAUtenburg KAMera", which will become the new prime-focus imager for the Tautenburg Schmidt telescope. It employs an e2v 6kx6k CCD and is under manufacture by Spectral Instruments Inc. We describe the design of the instrument and the auxiliary components, its specifications as well as the concept for integrating the device into the telescope infrastructure. First light is foreseen in 2017. TAUKAM will boost the observational capabilities of the telescope for what concerns optical wide-field surveys.
@article{arxiv.2101.12554,
title = {TAUKAM: a new prime-focus camera for the Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope},
author = {Bringfried Stecklum and Jochen Eislöffel and Sylvio Klose and Uwe Laux and Tom Löwinger and Helmut Meusinger and Michael Pluto and Johannes Winkler and Frank Dionies},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12554},
year = {2021}
}