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Instrument Scientists and Scientific Capabilities (1Mar95) (from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 41, 1 March 1995) As part of our effort to streamline operations within KPNO, we are switching scientific staff responsibilities from the one instrument-one scientist model to the concept of Capability Scientists. Scientific capabilities include a class of instrumentation and telescopes appropriate to particular types of scientific programs, such as CCD imaging or IR spectroscopy. Scientific capabilities are listed at the end of the article with the responsible staff contacts, and associated instrumentation and telescopes. We hope that by providing contacts for capabilities rather than instruments, we can better assist our users to understand the tradeoffs associated with different instruments and telescopes for their own scientific programs. If you have questions about KPNO instruments and capabilities, or would like advice on the use or selection of any KPNO instruments, please contact the appropriate Capability Scientist. The first name listed for each capability is the primary contact for questions about KPNO instrumentation. We are also in the process of rearranging our user manuals to reflect this new philosophy. Thus, rather than have separate instrument manuals for the CCD camera at the 4-m, WIYN, 0.9-m, and Burrell Schmidt telescopes, there is now a single "Direct Imaging at Kitt Peak" manual which provides simple comparisons between the characteristics of the various imaging facilities. We are planning to update our manuals in other areas similarly. We believe that this will make life easier both for the user in deciding what is the best match of the instrument to the science, and in having to maintain only a few manuals! A complete listing of the available KPNO manuals appears elsewhere in this Newsletter. CCD Imaging Ata Sarajedini, George Jacoby, Phil Massey 4-m Prime Focus CCD WIYN Imager 0.9-m CCD Direct CCDPHOT Burrell Schmidt CCD Low-to-Moderate Resolution Optical Spectroscopy Buell Januzzi, Taft Armandroff, Phil Massey 4-m R-C Spectrograph 4-m CryoCam 2.1-m GoldCam Multi-Fiber Spectroscopy Sam Barden, Taft Armandroff WIYN Hydra High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy Sam Barden, Daryl Willmarth 4-m Echelle Spectrograph Coude‚ Spectrograph IR Imaging Ron Probst, Mike Merrill 4-m and 2.1-m IRIM 4-m and 2.1-m COB IR Spectroscopy Dick Joyce 4-m and 2.1-m CRSP 4-m and 2.1-m COB Caty Pilachowski
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