Another 5 Years of Operation for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

Details Another 5 Years of Operation for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Another 5 Years of Operation for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

Sep 2008

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #32.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.453

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The 3.0-m NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is funded by the Planetary Astronomy Program and is located near the summit of Mauna Kea. The IRTF was established to obtain solar system observations of interest to NASA. Proposals are accepted twice a year on 01 April and 01 October. A new Cooperative Agreement to operate the IRTF was approved for the time period Feb. 2008 to Jan. 2013. We currently offer a suite of facility instruments that cover the 1--25 μm spectral region, and details can be found at: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/. We offer flexible remote observing that allows convenient access to the telescope with observing blocks as short as one hour. In the coming year we plan to upgrade our moderate resolution spectrograph (SpeX) with a new infrared array as well as to begin work on a high spectral resolution (λ/Δ λ 70,000) cross-dispersed spectrograph for 1--5 μm.

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