Concepts for a high resolution multi-object spectrograph for galactic archeology on the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barden, Samuel C ^a   Bland Hawthorn, Joss ^b   Churilov, Vladimir ^a   Ellis, Simon ^a   Farrell, Tony ^a   Freeman, Ken C ^c   Haynes, Roger ^a   Horton, Anthony ^a   Jones, Damien J ^d   Knight, Greg ^e   Miziarski, Stan ^a   Rambold, William ^a   Smith, Greg ^a   Waller, Lew ^a  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Prime Optics   (Australia)

^e SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

Author keywords

Echelle; High resolution; Multi object; Spectrograph; White pupil

Indexed keywords

ANAMORPHIC COLLIMATOR; ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORIES; APERTURE TELESCOPE; DISPERSION MODES; DOUBLE PASS; ECHELLE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; MILKY WAYS; MULTI-OBJECT; MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROGRAPH; STAR FORMATIONS; VPH GRATINGS; WAVELENGTH COVERAGE; WHITE PUPIL;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMAPPING; TELESCOPES;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 66249104699     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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