WIYN bench upgrade: A revitalized spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bershady, M ^a   Bardenb, S ^b   Blanche, P A ^c   Blancod, D ^d   Corsond, C ^d,e   Crawford, S ^a   Glaspey, J ^d   Habraken, S ^c   Jacoby, G ^d,e   Keyes, J ^a   Knezek, P ^d,e   Lemaire, P ^c   Liang, M ^d   McDougall, E ^d,e   Poczulp, G ^d   Sawyer, D ^d   Westfall, K ^a   Willmarth, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Australian Astronomical Observatory   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e WIYN Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD performance; Fiber fed spectrograph design; Volume phase holographic grating

Indexed keywords

CCD PERFORMANCE; COST RATIO; ECHELLE; ECHELLE GRATINGS; FLOAT-GLASS; INSTRUMENTAL RESOLUTION; MULTIOBJECT; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; SURFACE RELIEF GRATINGS; SYSTEM RECONFIGURATION; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING; VOLUME-PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; VPH GRATINGS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIGITAL CAMERAS; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 66249113559     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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