Design, construction, and performance of VIRUS-P: The prototype of a highly replicated integral-field spectrograph for HET

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hill, Gary J ^a   MacQueen, Phillip J ^a   Smith, Michael P ^a   Tufts, Joseph R ^b   Roth, Martin M ^c   Kelz, Andreas ^c   Adams, Joshua J ^a   Drory, Niv ^d   Grupp, Frank ^d   Barnes, Stuart I ^a   Blanc, Guillermo A ^a   Murphy, Jeremy D ^a   Altmann, Werner ^e   Wesley, Gordon L ^a   Segura, Pedro R ^a   Good, John M ^a   Booth, John A ^a   Bauer, Svend Marian ^c   Popow, Emil ^c   Goertz, John A ^a   Edmonston, Robert D ^a   Wilkinson, Christopher P ^a   more..

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^c ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e Konstructionsburo Werner Altmann   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; Dark Energy; Hobby Eberly Telescope; Spectrographs; Telescopes; VIRUS

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION; DARK ENERGY; DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS; DIELECTRIC COATINGS; FIBER BUNDLES; FILL FACTOR; FOCAL REDUCER; HIGH IMAGE QUALITY; HIGH REFLECTIVITY; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE; INSTRUMENT SOFTWARE; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; MC-DONALD; POISSON NOISE; PRIME-FOCUS; RAPID ACQUISITION; SCATTERED LIGHT; SHORT FIBER; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT; VIRUS-P; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS;

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIBERS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66249093497     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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