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We describe the performance of our latest generations of sensitive wide-band high-resolution digital Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FFTS). Their design, optimized for a wide range of radio astronomical applications, is presented.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Bernd Klein , Stefan Hochgürtel , Ingo Krämer , Andreas Bell , Klaus Meyer , Rolf Güsten

Integral field spectroscopy allows for spectral mapping of extended sources in a time efficient manner. An integral field unit (IFU) in the ultraviolet on Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) could be used to quickly map extended objects like…

The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a 12-m class seeing-limited telescope providing two concentric fields of view for simultaneous Multi-Object Spectroscopy and Integral Field Spectroscopy. The specified wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 P. Dierickx , T. Travouillon , G. Gausachs , R. Bacon , C. Cudennec , I. Bryson , D. Lee , J. Kragt , E. Muslimov , K. Dohlen , J. Kosmalski , J. Vernet , T. Lépine , P. Doel , D. Brooks

ArTeMiS is a wide-field submillimeter camera operating at three wavelengths simultaneously (200, 350 and 450 microns). A preliminary version of the instrument equipped with the 350 microns focal plane, has been successfully installed and…

EIFIS (Extreme Integral FIeld Spectrograph) is a modular integral field spectrograph, based on image slicers, and makes use of new, large format detectors. The concept is thought to cover the largest possible field of view while producing…

The HERMES high-resolution spectrograph project aims at exploiting the specific potential of small but flexible telescopes in observational astrophysics. The optimised optical design of the spectrograph is based on the well-proven concept…

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers the first opportunity to use integral-field spectroscopy from space at near-infrared wavelengths. More specifically, NIRSpec's integral-field unit can…

We present a description of the Dragonfly Wide Field Survey (DWFS), a deep photometric survey of a wide area of sky. The DWFS covers 330 $\mathrm{deg}^2$ in the equatorial GAMA fields and the Stripe 82 fields in the SDSS $g$ and $r$ bands.…

PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Naoyuki Tamura , Naruhisa Takato , Atsushi Shimono , Yuki Moritani , Kiyoto Yabe , Yuki Ishizuka , Akitoshi Ueda , Yukiko Kamata , Hrand Aghazarian , Stephane Arnouts , Gabriel Barban , Robert H. Barkhouser , Renato C. Borges , David F. Braun , Michael A. Carr , Pierre-Yves Chabaud , Yin-Chang Chang , Hsin-Yo Chen , Masashi Chiba , Richard C. Y. Chou , You-Hua Chu , Judith G. Cohen , Rodrigo P. de Almeida , Antonio C. de Oliveira , Ligia S. de Oliveira , Richard G. Dekany , Kjetil Dohlen , Jesulino B. dos Santos , Leandro H. dos Santos , Richard S. Ellis , Maximilian Fabricius , Didier Ferrand , Decio Ferreira , Mirek Golebiowski , Jenny E. Greene , Johannes Gross , James E. Gunn , Randolph Hammond , Albert Harding , Murdock Hart , Timothy M. Heckman , Christopher M. Hirata , Paul Ho , Stephen C. Hope , Larry Hovland , Shu-Fu Hsu , Yen-Shan Hu , Ping-Jie Huang , Marc Jaquet , Yipeng Jing , Jennifer Karr , Masahiko Kimura , Matthew E. King , Eiichiro Komatsu , Vincent Le Brun , Olivier Le Fevre , Arnaud Le Fur , David Le Mignant , Hung-Hsu Ling , Craig P. Loomis , Robert H. Lupton , Fabrice Madec , Peter Mao , Lucas S. Marrara , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira , Yosuke Minowa , Chaz N. Morantz , Hitoshi Murayama , Graham J. Murray , Youichi Ohyama , Joseph Orndorff , Sandrine Pascal , Jefferson M. Pereira , Daniel J. Reiley , Martin Reinecke , Andreas Ritter , Mitsuko Roberts , Mark A. Schwochert , Michael D. Seiffert , Stephen A. Smee , Laerte Sodre , David N. Spergel , Aaron J. Steinkraus , Michael A. Strauss , Christian Surace , Yasushi Suto , Nao Suzuki , John Swinbank , Philip J. Tait , Masahiro Takada , Tomonori Tamura , Yoko Tanaka , Laurence Tresse , Orlando Verducci , Didier Vibert , Clement Vidal , Shiang-Yu Wang , Chih-Yi Wen , Chi-Hung Yan , Naoki Yasuda

We are developing a Wide-Field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (WIIT) in support of design studies for NASA's future space interferometry missions, in particular the SPIRIT and SPECS far-infrared/submillimeter interferometers. WIIT operates…

Spectrometry is a general physical-analysis approach for investigating light-matter interactions. However, the complex designs of existing spectrometers render them resistant to simplification and miniaturization, both of which are vital…

We present an overview of SITELLE, an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (iFTS) available at the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. SITELLE is a Michelson-type interferometer able to reconstruct the spectrum of every light source…

We present the absolute flux and wavelength calibration of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) mode. Each of NIRCam's two modules (A and B) provides independent long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Nor Pirzkal , Martha Boyer , Russel E. Ryan

We use a dense, complete redshift survey, the Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey (SHELS), covering a 4 square degree region of a deep imaging survey, the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), to study the optical spectral properties of Wide-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ho Seong Hwang , Margaret J. Geller , Michael J. Kurtz , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Daniel G. Fabricant

The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in response to the NASA 2023 call for a probe class mission. The…

The World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) space telescope is equipped with high dispersion (55,000) spectrographs working in the 1150-3100 {\AA} spectral range. To evaluate the impact of the design on the scientific objectives of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Pablo Marcos-Arenal , Ana I. Gómez de Castro , Belén Perea Abarca , Mikhail Sachkov

Binospec is a wide-field optical (360 to 1000 nm) spectrograph commissioned at the MMT 6.5m telescope in 2017. In direct imaging mode Binospec addresses twin 8$^\prime$ (wide) by 15$^\prime$ (slit length) fields of view. We describe an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Daniel Fabricant , Sagi Ben-Ami , Igor Chilingarian , Robert Fata , Sean Moran , Martin Paegert , Matthew Smith , Joseph Zajac

The Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS) is a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3/IR (Wide Field Camera 3 Infrared) slitless spectroscopic survey of four deep fields. Two fields are located in the Great Observatories Origins Deep…