The FIRE infrared spectrometer at Magellan: Construction and commissioning

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Simcoe, Robert A ^a   Burgasser, Adam J ^b   Bochanski, John J ^a   Schechter, Paul L ^a   Bernstein, Rebecca A ^c   Bigelow, Bruce C ^d   Pipher, Judith L ^e   Forrest, William ^e   McMurtry, Craig ^e   Smith, Matthew J ^f   Fishner, Jason ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BROWN DWARFS; CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; ECHELLE SPECTROMETERS; HIGH-REDSHIFT; K BANDS; MAGELLAN;

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

FIRES;

EID: 78149267365     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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