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2025PASP..137f5001K - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 137, part no 6, 5001 (2025/June-0)

Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica.

KASLIWAL M.M., EARLEY N., SMITH R., GUILLOT T., TRAVOUILLON T., FUCIK J., ABE L., GREFFE T., AGABI A., ASHLEY M.C.B., TRIAUD A.H.M.J., TINYANONT S., ANTIER S., BENDJOYA P., BHATTARAI R., BERTZ R., BRUGGER J., BURDANOV A., CAIAZZO I., CARRY B., CASAGRANDE L., CENKO B., COOKE J., DE K., DEKANY R., DELOUPY V., DORNIC D., FAHEY L., FIGER D., FREEMAN K., FROSTIG D., GRAHAM M.J., GUNTHER M., HALE D., BLAND-HAWTHORN J., ILLUMINATI G., JENCSON J., KARAMBELKAR V., KEY R., LAU R.M., LI M., LUBIN P., NEILL D., PAHUJA R., PIAN E., DE UGARTE POSTIGO A., ROBERTS M., RODRIGUEZ H., ROSE S., RUITER A.J., SCHMIDER F.-X., SIMCOE R.A., STEIN R., SUAREZ O., TAYLOR E.N., WEBER B., WEN L., DE WIT J., ZARZACA R. and ZIMMER J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present Cryoscope, a new 50 deg2 field-of-view, 1.2 m aperture, Kdark survey telescope to be located at Dome C, Antarctica. Cryoscope has an innovative optical-thermal design wherein the entire telescope is cryogenically cooled. Cryoscope also explores new detector technology to cost-effectively tile the full focal plane. Leveraging the dark Antarctic sky and minimizing telescope thermal emission, Cryoscope achieves unprecedented deep, wide, fast, and red observations, matching and exceeding volumetric survey speeds from the Ultraviolet Explorer, Vera Rubin Observatory, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, SPHEREx, and NEO Surveyor. By providing coverage beyond wavelengths of 2 μm, we aim to create the most comprehensive dynamic movie of the most obscured reaches of the Universe. Cryoscope will be a dedicated discovery engine for electromagnetic emission from coalescing compact binaries, Earth-like exoplanets orbiting cold stars, and multiple facets of time-domain, stellar, and solar system science. In this paper, we describe the scientific drivers and technical innovations for this new discovery engine operating in the Kdark passband, why we choose to deploy it in Antarctica, and the status of a fifth-scale prototype designed as a Pathfinder to retire technological risks prior to full-scale implementation. We plan to deploy the Cryoscope Pathfinder to Dome C in 2026 December and the full-scale telescope by 2030.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

Journal keyword(s): Astronomical instrumentation - Surveys - Time domain astronomy - Infrared astronomy - Exoplanets - Gravitational wave astronomy - Stellar mergers - Variable stars - Solar system astronomy - Astronomical detectors

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