Performance of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope tested in two fields at high and low ecliptic and galactic latitudes

arXiv:2605.15693 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-05-15 · Read on arXiv

Sara Filali, Kumar Pranshu, Jean Surdej, Paul Hickson, Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov, Monalisa Dubey, Naveen Dukiya, Brajesh Kumar, Priyanshi Kumari, Vibhore Negi, Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-05-15

Comments: To appear in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 33 pages, 13 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• International Liquid Mirror Telescope — 6× in this paper
• Aperture Photometry — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cooperation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Minor Planet Checker — 3× in this paper
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Time Delay Integration — 1× in this paper

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