Q-Spec: A concept for the giant magellan telescope high resolution optical spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barnes, S ^a   MacQueen, P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Echelle grating; ELT; High resolution

Indexed keywords

1060 NM; ANAMORPHIC; ECHELLE GRATING; ELT; FOUR-CHANNEL; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; LINE DENSITY; MINIMUM ORDER; OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OPTICAL SPECTROGRAPH; RADIAL VELOCITY; SEEING LIMITED; TRANSFER OPTICS; TWO BEAMS; VACUUM ENCLOSURE; VPH GRATINGS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PIXELS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66249126319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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