Design and Commissioning of a Dual Visible/Near-IR Echelle Spectrograph for the AEOS Telescope

Details Design and Commissioning of a Dual Visible/Near-IR Echelle Spectrograph for the AEOS Telescope Design and Commissioning of a Dual Visible/Near-IR Echelle Spectrograph for the AEOS Telescope

Mar 2003

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Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Iye, Masanori; Moorwood, Alan F. M.

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The Institute for Astronomy has developed and recently installed a high-resolution cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph for use at one of the coudé foci of the AEOS 3.7-meter telescope, operated by the Air Force Space Command atop Mt. Haleakala on the island of Maui. The spectrograph features an optical arm for the wavelength range 0.5 - 1.0 μm and an infrared arm for the range 1.0 - 2.5 μm. We review the spectrograph design and present commissioning results obtained with both the visible and infrared arms. Both channels use a white-pupil collimator design to maximize grating efficiency and to limit the size of the camera optics. The visible arm of the spectrograph uses deep-depletion CCDs optimized for operation near 1.0 μm. The infrared detector is a 2048 x 2048 HgCdTe array (HAWAII-2) that has been developed by the Rockwell Science Center for this project. Both channels are equipped with slit-viewing cameras for object acquisition and control of a fast guiding tip-tilt mirror located at a pupil image in the spectrograph fore optics.

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