The Cosmic Web Imager: An integral field spectrograph for the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory: Instrument design and first results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Matuszewski, Mateusz ^a   Chang, Daphne ^a   Crabill, Robert M ^a   Martin, D Christopher ^a   Moore, Anna M ^a   Morrissey, Patrick ^a   Rahman, Shahinur ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic Web Imager; Cosmology; Integral Field Spectroscopy; VPH Gratings

Indexed keywords

COSMIC WEB IMAGER; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; SEEING LIMITED; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RANGE; SPECTRAL RESOLVING POWER; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; VPH GRATINGS;

ASTRONOMY; BUILDINGS; INSTRUMENTS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 78149263555     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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