Status of the KMOS multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8446, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sharples, Ray ^a   Bender, Ralf ^b,d   Berbel, Alex Agudo ^d   Bennett, Richard ^c   Bezawada, Naidu ^c   Cirasuolo, Michele ^c   Clark, Paul ^a   Davidson, George ^c   Davies, Richard ^d   Davies, Roger ^e   Dubbeldam, Marc ^a   Fairley, Alasdair ^c   Finger, Gert ^f   Genzel, Reinhard ^d   Haefner, Reinhold ^b   Hess, Achim ^b   Lewis, Ian ^e   Montgomery, David ^c   Murray, John ^c   Muschielok, Bernard ^b   Schreiber, Natascha Förster ^d   Pirard, Jeff ^f   Ramsey, Suzanne ^f   Rees, Phil ^c   Richter, Josef ^b   Robertson, David ^a   Robson, Ian ^c   Rolt, Stephen ^a   Saglia, Roberto ^b   Schlichter, Joerg ^b   Tecza, Matthias ^e   Todd, Stephen ^c   Wegner, Michael ^b   Wiezorrek, Erich ^d   more..

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infrared spectrographs; Integral field spectroscopy; Multi object spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIOBJECT; MULTIOBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED; PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION; TEST PHASIS;

ASTRONOMY; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84871940053     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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