The FourStar infrared camera
Abstract
The FourStar infrared camera is a 1.0-2.5 μm (JHKs) near infrared camera for the Magellan Baade 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile). It is being built by Carnegie Observatories and the Instrument Development Group and is scheduled for completion in 2009. The instrument uses four Teledyne HAWAII-2RG arrays that produce a 10.9' × 10.9' field of view. The outstanding seeing at the Las Campanas site coupled with FourStar's high sensitivity and large field of view will enable many new survey and targeted science programs.
- Publication:
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Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II
- Pub Date:
- July 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.790015
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0807.3777
- Bibcode:
- 2008SPIE.7014E..2VP
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 10 figures. To appear in to appear in "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II" SPIE conference Proc. 7014, Marseille, 23-28 June 2008