NOAO's next-generation optical spectrograph

Samuel Charles Barden; Charles F. W. Harmer; Rick Dale Blakley; Rachel J. Parks

doi:10.1117/12.395517

16 August 2000 NOAO's next-generation optical spectrograph

Samuel Charles Barden, Charles F. W. Harmer, Rick Dale Blakley, Rachel J. Parks

Proceedings Volume 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395517
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory is developing a new, wide-field, imaging spectrograph for use on its existing 4-meter telescopes. This Next Generation Optical Spectrograph (NGOS) will utilize volume-phase holographic grating technology and will have a mosaiced detector array to image the spectra over a field of view that will be something like 10.5 by 42 arc-minutes on the sky. The overall efficiency of the spectrograph should be quite high allowing it to outperform the current RC spectrograph by factors of 10 to 20 and the Hydra multi-fiber instrument by a facto of fiber to ten per object. The operational range of the instrument will allow observations within the optical and near-IR regions. Spectral resolutions will go from R equals 1000 to at least R equals 5000 with 1.4 arc-second slits. The large size of this instrument, with a beam diameter of 200 mm and an overall length of nearly 3 meters, presents a significant challenge in mounting it at the Cassegrain location of the telescope. Design trades and options that allow it to fit are discussed.

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Samuel Charles Barden, Charles F. W. Harmer, Rick Dale Blakley, and Rachel J. Parks "NOAO's next-generation optical spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors, (16 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395517

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