The Magellan Echellette (MagE) spectrograph is a single-object optical echellette spectrograph for the Magellan Clay telescope. MagE has been designed to have high throughput in the blue; the peak throughput is 22% at 5600 A including the telescope. The wavelength coverage includes the entire optical window (3100 A - 1 micron). The spectral resolution for a 1" slit is R~4100. MagE is a very simple spectrograph with only four moving parts, prism cross-dispersion, and a vacuum Schmidt camera. The instrument saw first light in November 2007 and is now routinely taking science observations.
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@article{arxiv.0807.3774,
title = {The MagE Spectrograph},
author = {J. L. Marshall and Scott Burles and Ian B. Thompson and Stephen A. Shectman and Bruce C. Bigelow and Gregory Burley and Christoph Birk and Jorge Estrada and Patricio Jones and Matthew Smith and Vince Kowal and Jerson Castillo and Robert Storts and Greg Ortiz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3774},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 7 figures. To appear in to appear in "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II" SPIE conference Proc. 7014, Marseille, 23-28 June 2008