Image gallery

Historical Pictures

Checking on site: Charles Alcock was examining his reading at a saddle point near Lulin (The current TAOS site) on 17 December, 1997.
Visiting the authorities: TAOS collaboration was visiting the headquarters of Yushan (Jade Mountain) National Park on 8 February, 1998.
The photograph of one of the possible sites: The west peak of Jade mountain (another site is located on top of Lu-Lin mountain)
Asteroids and comets: Search for Earth-intercepting asteroids and comets
Kuiper belt objects: Showing how to find Kuiper Belt object optically
Trailed image data: A CCD image of a 'median' star trail.
Occultation event: A picture shows how to find KBOs by occultation.
The requirements for this experiment: Two figures shows the limitation of this experiment
TAOS #2 enclosure: The first enclosure installed on lulin during day time

Current Status

Check the pages of telescopes, sites, enclosures for more up-to-date pictures of TAOS site and hardware.

Technical/Scientific Features

Illustration of zipper mode operation

Asteroid occultations:

(51) Nemausa on 21 February, 2004
(1723) Klemola on 5 June, 2004
(286) Iclea on 6 February, 2006
(87) Sylvia on 18 December, 2006
(973) Aralia on 30 December, 2007

Gamma Ray Burst afterglows:

071010B
071112C

Exoplanet transits:

Flare stars and other variables:

The 2006 Hengchun earthquake (magnitude ~7) seen in a gif animation (~20 MB) of TAOS zipper mode images. The asynchronism shows that the starlight recorded in the same frame (rowblock) might come from different zipper cycles. (animation prepared by Andrew Wang)

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