Performance of the FLAMINGOS near-IR multi-object spectrometer and imager and plans for FLAMINGOS-2: A fully cryogenic near-IR MOS for Gemini South

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1611-1624

  Elston, Richard ^a   Raines, S N ^a   Hanna, Kevin ^a   Hon, David ^a   Julian, Jeffrey ^a   Horrobin, Matthew ^a   Harmer, Charles ^b   Epps, Harland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; FLAMINGOS; FLAMINGOS 2; Gemini telescope; HAWAII 2 array; Imager; MMT telescope; Multi object; Near infrared; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE SENSORS; MASKS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES;

MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROMETERS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0037958528     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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