The 4 meter New Robotic Telescope project: an updated report
Abstract
The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is an international collaboration to build and operate a 4 m diameter fully robotic telescope. The telescope will take advantage of the superb atmospheric conditions at the Observatory of the Roque de los Muchachos (ORM). In conjunction with a large aperture, entirely robotic operation, quick response, and a set of versatile instrumentation in the optical and near-infrared this guarantees a high scientific impact focused mainly in the area of time domain astronomy. This paper presents the scientific motivation and the status of the project, discussing possible technical solutions under evaluation for the optics, mechanics and control system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.04110,
title = {The 4 meter New Robotic Telescope project: an updated report},
author = {C. M. Gutiérrez and M. Torres and A. Oria and J. J. Fernández-Valdivia and D. Arnold and D. Copley and C. Copperwheat and J. de Cos Juez and A. Franco and Y. Fan and A. García Piñero and E. Harvey and H. Jermak and X. Jiang and J. H. Knapen and A. McGrath and A. Ranjbar and R. Rebolo and R. Smith and I. A. Steele and Z. Wang and X. Wu and D. Xu and S. Xue and W. Yuan and Y. Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04110},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (AstroRob 2019)