FRIDA: diffraction-limited imaging and integral-field spectroscopy for the GTC
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2016-12-14 v1
Abstract
FRIDA is a diffraction-limited imager and integral-field spectrometer that is being built for the adaptive-optics focus of the Gran Telescopio Canarias. In imaging mode FRIDA will provide scales of 0.010, 0.020 and 0.040 arcsec/pixel and in IFS mode spectral resolutions of 1500, 4000 and 30,000. FRIDA is starting systems integration and is scheduled to complete fully integrated system tests at the laboratory by the end of 2017 and to be delivered to GTC shortly thereafter. In this contribution we present a summary of its design, fabrication, current status and potential scientific applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.09660,
title = {FRIDA: diffraction-limited imaging and integral-field spectroscopy for the GTC},
author = {Alan M. Watson and José A. Acosta-Pulido and Luis C. Álvarez-Núñez and Vicente Bringas-Rico and Nicolás Cardiel and Salvador Cuevas and Oscar Chapa and José Javier Díaz García and Stephen S. Eikenberry and Carlos Espejo and Rubén A. Flores-Meza and Jorge Fuentes-Fernández and Jesús Gallego and José Leonardo Garcés Medina and Francisco Garzón López and Peter Hammersley and Carolina Keiman and Gerardo Lara and José Alberto López and Pablo L. López and Diana Lucero and Heidy Moreno Arce and Sergio Pascual Ramirez and Jesús Patrón Recio and Almudena Prieto and Alberto José Rodríguez and José Marco de la Rosa and Beatriz Sánchez and Jorge A. Uribe and Francisco Váldez Berriozabal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09660},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of SPIE conference 9908 "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI". 8 pages