The wide-field infrared transient explorer (WINTER) by Lourie, Nathan P, Baker, John W, Burruss, Richard S, Egan, Mark D, Furész, Gábor, Frostig, Danielle, Garcia-Zych, Allan A, Ganciu, Nicolae, Haworth, Kari, Hinrichsen, Erik, Kasliwal, Mansi M, Karambelkar, Viraj R, Malonis, Andrew, Simcoe, Robert A, Zolkower, Jeffry N

“…We present the design of the WINTER instrument and current progress towards final integration at Palomar Observatory and commissioning planned for mid-2021.…”
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Detector architecture of the wide-field infrared transient explorer (WINTER) InGaAs camera by Malonis, Andrew, Lourie, Nathan, Furész, Gábor, Frostig, Danielle, Hinrichsen, Erik, Simcoe, Robert A

“…We present the InGaAs detector system of the Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER), a new infrared instrument operating on a 1 meter robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory. These commercially produced sensors are cooled to -50 °C by a thermo-electric cooler integrated into a room temperature package. …”
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Design requirements for the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) by Frostig, Danielle, Baker, John W, Brown, Joshua, Burruss, Rick, Clark, Kristin, Furész, Gábor, Ganciu, Nicolae, Hinrichsen, Erik, Karambelkar, Viraj R, Kasliwal, Mansi M, Lourie, Nathan P, Malonis, Andrew, Simcoe, Robert A, Zolkower, Jeffry N

“…The Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a 1x1 degree infrared survey telescope under development at MIT and Caltech, and slated for commissioning at Palomar Observatory in 2021. WINTER is a seeing-limited infrared time-domain survey and has two main science goals: (1) the discovery of IR kilonovae and r-process materials from binary neutron star mergers and (2) the study of general IR transients, including supernovae, tidal disruption events, and transiting exoplanets around low mass stars. …”
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