Preliminary Design of ARIES-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera

Soumen Mondal; Ramakant S. Yadav; Mahendra Singh

Preliminary Design of ARIES-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2009-05-05 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Authors: Soumen Mondal , Ramakant S. Yadav , Mahendra Singh

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We present here the preliminary design of ARIES-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (ADFOSC), which is a multi-mode instrument for both imaging and spectroscopy. ADFOSC is the first-generation instrument to be mounted at the axial port of the Cassegrain focus on our new 3.6m optical telescope to be installed at Devasthal, Nainital. The main design goals of the instrument are : the instrument will have capability of broad- and narrow-band imaging, low-medium resolution spectroscopy, and imaging polarimetry. The operating wavelength range will be from 360 to 1000 nm and the instrument will have remote-control capability.

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astronomical instrumentation and telescopes

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@article{arxiv.0905.0360,
  title  = {Preliminary Design of ARIES-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera},
  author = {Soumen Mondal and Ramakant S. Yadav and Mahendra Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0360},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of International Conference on Trends in Optics and Photonics(IConTOP), 2009, edited by A. Ghosh and D. Choudhury, held at Kolkata, India during 1-4 March 2009, pp374-379,ISBN 978-81-908188-0-3

Preliminary Design of ARIES-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera

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