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The Ground Based Optical/Infrared System

Infrared Imagers -- Telescopes > 6.5m

Telescope

Instrument

Wavelength - Detector Type, Format

Resolution

Field of View

Features/Status

Keck 10m

LWS

3 - 25 um; Boeing 128 X 128 Si:As BIB

0.08 arcsec/pixel

10.2 X 10.2 arcsec

 

Keck 10m

NIRC

1 - 5 um; InSb 256 X 256

0.15 arcsec/pixel

38 X 38 arcsec

speckle mode; R=100 grism

Keck 10m

NIRC 2

1 - 5 um; InSb 1024 X 1024

0.01 - 0.04 arcsec/pixel

10 X 10 to 40 X 40 arcsec

Uses NGS/LGS AO System; coronagraph; grisms

Keck 10m

SHARC

0.85-2.4um; 1024 X 1024 Hawaii-2

0.019 arcsec/pixel

19.5 X 19.5 arcsec

Behind AO system

Gemini-N 8m

NIRI

1-5um; 1024 X 1025 InSb

0.02-0.12 arcsec/pixel

20 X 20 to 120 X 120 arcsec

grisms; coronograph; polarimetry

Gemini-S 8m

T-ReCS

8-26 um; 240 X 320 Si:As BIB

0.09 arcsec/pixel

30 X 22 arcsec FOV

spectroscopy also

Gemini-S 8m

Flamingos-2

1-2.5 um; 2K X 2K HgCdTe

 

3 X 3 arcmin FOV

delivery 2005

Gemini-S 8m

NICI

1-5um; 1024 X 1024 InSb

 

20 X 20 arcsec FOV

optimized for coronography; delivery 2004

Gemini-N 8m

XAO Coronagraph

0.9-2.5 um

0.01 arcsec/pixel

> 3 arcsec FOV

IFU; planned

MMT 6.5m

MIRAC3

2-26um; 128 X 128 Si:As BIB

0.14 or 0.28 arcsec/pixel

18.2 X 18.2 or 36 X 36 arcsec

 

Magellan 6.5m

MMIRS

0.9 - 2.5 um; HgCdTe 2K X 2K

0.15 arcsec/pixel

2.5 X 2.5 arcmin FOV

delivery 2006; TSIP funded


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