The upgraded WIYN bench spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Knezek, Patricia M ^a,b   Bershady, Matthew A ^c   Willmarth, Daryl ^a   Glaspey, John ^a   Poczulp, Gary ^a   Blanco, Dan ^b   Britanik, Lana ^a   McDougall, Eugene ^b   Corson, Charles ^a   Liang, Ming ^a   Keyes, Joe ^b,d   Jacoby, George ^b,e  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b WIYN CONSORTIUM INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e GMTO CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

bench spectrograph; CCD; collimator; fiber fed spectrograph; volume phase holographic grating

Indexed keywords

BENCH SPECTROGRAPH; CCD; COLLIMATOR; ECHELLE; INTEGRAL FIELD UNIT; KITT PEAK; MULTIOBJECT; OUTPUT FIBERS; RESOLUTION LOSS; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS;

ASTRONOMY; FIBERS; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THROUGHPUT;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 78149262287     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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