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We demonstrate for the first time an efficient, photonic-based astronomical spectrograph on the 8-m Subaru Telescope. An extreme adaptive optics system is combined with pupil apodiziation optics to efficiently inject light directly into a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 N. Jovanovic , N. Cvetojevic , B. Norris , C. Betters , C. Schwab , J. Lozi , O. Guyon , S. Gross , F. Martinache , P. Tuthill , D. Doughty , Y. Minowa , N. Takato , J. Lawrence

The PFS is a multi-object spectrograph fed by 2394 fibers at the prime focus of Subaru telescope. Since the F/# at the prime focus is too fast for the spectrograph, we designed a small concave-plano negative lens to be attached to the tip…

Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) OH suppression is capable of greatly reducing the bright sky background seen by near infrared spectrographs. By filtering out the airglow emission lines at high resolution before the light enters the spectrograph…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Anthony Horton , Simon Ellis , Jon Lawrence , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

We present a spectroscopic survey of galaxies in the COSMOS field using the Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS), a near-infrared instrument on the Subaru Telescope. Our survey is specifically designed to detect the Halpha emission line…

Gratings and holograms are patterned surfaces that tailor optical signals by diffraction. Despite their long history, variants with remarkable functionalities continue to be discovered. Further advances could exploit Fourier optics, which…

In traditional seeing-limited observations the spectrograph aperture scales with telescope aperture, driving sizes and costs to enormous proportions. We propose a new solution to the seeing-limited spectrograph problem. A massively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicholas Konidaris , Joel Kubby , Andrew Sheinis

Our aims are to determine flux densities and their photometric accuracy for a set of seventeen stars that range in flux from intermediately bright (<2.5 Jy) to faint (>5 mJy) in the far-infrared (FIR). We also aim to derive signal-to-noise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Ulrich Klaas , Zoltan Balog , Markus Nielbock , Thomas Muller , Hendrik Linz , Csaba Kiss

We describe the expected scientific capabilities of CHARIS, a high-contrast integral-field spectrograph (IFS) currently under construction for the Subaru telescope. CHARIS is part of a new generation of instruments, enabled by extreme…

CUBES is the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph, a high-efficiency instrument operating in the UV spectral range between 300nm and 400nm with a resolution not less than 20000. CUBES is to be installed at a Cassegrain focus of the Very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 U. D. Zeitner , H. Dekker , F. Burmeister , T. Flügel-Paul , A. Bianco , A. Zanutta

We describe a new 4096x4096 pixel CCD mosaic camera (MOCAM) available at the prime focus of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). The camera is a mosaic of four 2048x2048$ Loral frontside-illuminated CCDs with 15 $\mu$m pixels,…

High-precision spectrophotometry is highly desirable in detecting and characterizing close-in extrasolar planets to learn about their makeup and temperature. For such a goal, a modest-size telescope with a simple low-resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Kenworthy , P. M. Hinz

The Prototype Imaging Spectrograph for Coronagraphic Exoplanet Studies (PISCES) is a high contrast integral field spectrograph (IFS) whose design was driven by WFIRST coronagraph instrument requirements. We present commissioning and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Prabal Saxena , Maxime J. Rizzo , Camilo Mejia Prada , Jorge Llop Sayson , Qian Gong , Eric J. Cady , Avi M. Mandell , Tyler D. Groff , Michael W. McElwain

Time-resolved femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is a powerful tool for investigating ultrafast structural and vibrational dynamics in light absorbing systems. However, the technique generally requires exposing a sample to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-10 Matthew N. Ashner , William A. Tisdale

In this paper, a recently developed snapshot hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system based on Computed Tomography Imaging Spectroscopy (CTIS) is utilized to determine Brix and pH values in Sheegene 20 table grapes through Partial Least Squares…

The use of Immersed Gratings offers advantages for both space- and ground-based spectrographs. As diffraction takes place inside the high-index medium, the optical path difference and angular dispersion are boosted proportionally, thereby…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 Michiel Rodenhuis , Paul J. J. Tol , Tonny H. M. Coppens , Phillip P. Laubert , Aaldert H. van Amerongen

Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) applied to quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has been successfully demonstrated as a powerful label-free method to analyse the optical properties of cells. Spatially multiplexed interferometric microscopy…

Galaxies at high redshifts provide a valuable tool to study cosmic dawn, and therefore it is crucial to reliably identify these galaxies. Here, we present an unambiguous and first simultaneous detection of both the Lyman-alpha emission and…

In the present paper we demonstrate the approach of using a holographic grating on a freeform surface for advanced spectrographs design. We discuss the surface and groove pattern description used for ray-tracing. Moreover, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Eduard R. Muslimov , Marc Ferrari , Emmanuel Hugot , Jean-Claude Bouret , Coralie Neiner , Simona Lombardo , Gerard Lemaitre , Robert Grange , Ilya A. Guskov

Infrared-faint radio sources (IFRS) are objects that have flux densities of several mJy at 1.4GHz, but that are invisible at 3.6um when using sensitive Spitzer observations with uJy sensitivities. Their nature is unclear and difficult to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Enno Middelberg , Ray P. Norris , Christopher A. Hales , Nick Seymour , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Minh T. Huynh , Emil Lenc , Minnie Y. Mao