Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2004
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Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy. Edited by James D. Garnett and James W. Beletic. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
3
Scientific paper
PMAS is a versatile integral field spectrograph based on the principle of a fiber-coupled lens array type of IFU. The instrument was commissioned at the Calar Alto 3.5m Telescope in May 2001. PMAS is offered as a common user instrument at Calar Alto since 2002. However, it has remained flexible enough to be used as a testbed for new observing techniques. Since the instrument is sensitive in the wavelength range from 0.35 to 1 μm, it is being used to experiment with faint object 3D spectroscopy for a variety of objects in stellar and extragalactic astronomy. Among these experiments, we have implemented a nod-shuffle mode of operation, which is a beam switching technique to achieve a high degree of sky subtraction accuracy. We describe the technical details of the special solution found for PMAS and first results obtained in test observations of faint haloes of planetary nebulae.
Becker Thomas
Fechner Thomas
Kelz Andreas
Roth Martin M.
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