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Transmission spectroscopy is an effective technique for probing exoplanetary atmospheres. While most observations have relied on space facilities such as HST and JWST, ground-based high-resolution transmission spectroscopy (HRTS) has also…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Manjunath Bestha , Athira Unni , T. Sivarani , Shivangi Menon , Parvathy M , Arun Surya , Pallavi Saraf , Devika Divakar , Lokesh Manickavasaham

We present the concept and preliminary design of the Galileo OH Subtracted Spectrograph [GOHSS], a multifibre NIR spectrograph for faint objects. The instrument represents a collaboration between the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and…

We describe techniques for photometric calibration of optical spectra obtained with the MMT's fiber-fed spectrograph, Hectospec. The atmospheric dispersion compensation prisms built into the MMT's f/5 wide field corrector effectively…

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) VIRUS Parallel Survey (HETVIPS) is a blind spectroscopic program that sparsely covers approximately two-thirds of the celestial sphere and consists of roughly 252 million fiber spectra. The spectra were…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-02 Gregory R. Zeimann , Maya H. Debski , Donald P. Schneider , William P. Bowman , Niv Drory , Gary J. Hill , Hanshin Lee , Phillip MacQueen , Matthew Shetrone

The present paper describes the current baseline optical design of POLLUX, a high-resolution spectropolarimeter for the future LUVOIR mission. The instrument will operate in the ultraviolet (UV) domain from 90 to 390 nm in both…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new suite of cosmic microwave background telescopes in the Chilean Atacama Desert with an extensive science program spanning cosmology, Galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, and particle physics. SO will…

Imaging spectropolarimetry is a new observing mode on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that was commissioned in Cycle 30 and is available to HST observers starting in Cycle 31 (i.e., from 2023).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Nimish P. Hathi , Dean C. Hines , Yotam Cohen , Norman A. Grogin , Marco Chiaberge

We present the in-lab and on-sky performance for the upgraded 90 GHz focal plane of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), which had four of its seven detector wafers updated during the austral winter of 2022. The update aimed…

Targeting dynamic spatially-extended phenomena in the upper solar atmosphere, a new instrument concept has been developed and tested at the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico, USA, that provides wide-field, rapid-scanning, high-resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 Thomas A. Schad , Haosheng Lin

This paper describes the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) under construction at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University (ANU) for the ANU 2.3m telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Michael Dopita , John Hart , Peter McGregor , Patrick Oates , Gabe Bloxham , Damien Jones

LARS is an Absolute Reference Spectrograph designed for ultra-precise solar observations. The high-resolution echelle spectrograph of the Vacuum Tower Telescope is supported by a state-of-the-art laser frequency comb to calibrate the solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 J. Loehner-Boettcher , W. Schmidt , H. -P. Doerr , T. Kentischer , T. Steinmetz , R. A. Probst , R. Holzwarth

Ro-vibrational spectra of different electronic states of molecules are often used as absolute wavelength or frequency standards. These standards are also used to mitigate any slow drift of laser frequency during an experiment. In precision…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 T. Dutta , M. Mukherjee

Over the past two decades the echelle spectrograph NES of the 6-m telescope was used to perform high resolution spectroscopy of far evolved stars spanning a wide range of initial masses. The studies cover a diversity of stars with high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 V. G. Klochkova , V. E. Panchuk , M. V. Yushkin

NASA's TESS mission has unveiled a plethora of eclipsing binaries (EBs), among them hundreds of triples and higher order, hierarchical systems. These complex targets require follow-up observations to enable full characterization of system…

Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) will be a new instrument designed to be mounted at the Nasmyth--A focus of the ESO 3.5 m New Technology Telescope in La Silla site (Chile). SOXS is composed of two high-efficiency spectrographs with a resolution slit…

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Subaru 8.2-meter telescope. The simultaneous wide wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hajime Sugai , Naoyuki Tamura , Hiroshi Karoji , Atsushi Shimono , Naruhisa Takato , Masahiko Kimura , Youichi Ohyama , Akitoshi Ueda , Hrand Aghazarian , Marcio Vital de Arruda , Robert H. Barkhouser , Charles L. Bennett , Steve Bickerton , Alexandre Bozier , David F. Braun , Khanh Bui , Christopher M. Capocasale , Michael A. Carr , Bruno Castilho , Yin-Chang Chang , Hsin-Yo Chen , Richard C. Y. Chou , Olivia R. Dawson , Richard G. Dekany , Eric M. Ek , Richard S. Ellis , Robin J. English , Didier Ferrand , Décio Ferreira , Charles D. Fisher , Mirek Golebiowski , James E. Gunn , Murdock Hart , Timothy M. Heckman , Paul T. P. Ho , Stephen Hope , Larry E. Hovland , Shu-Fu Hsuc , Yen-Shan Hu , Pin Jie Huang , Marc Jaquet , Jennifer E. Karr , Jason G. Kempenaar , Matthew E. King , Olivier Le Fèvre , David Le Mignant , Hung-Hsu Ling , Craig Loomis , Robert H. Lupton , Fabrice Madec , Peter Mao , Lucas Souza Marrara , Brice Ménard , Chaz Morantz , Hitoshi Murayama , Graham J. Murray , Antonio Cesar de Oliveira , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira , Ligia Souza de Oliveira , Joe D. Orndorff , Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça , Eamon J. Partos , Sandrine Pascal , Thomas Pegot-Ogier , Daniel J. Reiley , Reed Riddle , Leandro Santos , Jesulino Bispo dos Santos , Mark A. Schwochert , Michael D. Seiffert , Stephen A. Smee , Roger M. Smith , Ronald E. Steinkraus , Laerte Sodré , David N. Spergel , Christian Surace , Laurence Tresse , Clément Vidal , Sebastien Vives , Shiang-Yu Wang , Chih-Yi Wen , Amy C. Wu , Rosie Wyse , Chi-Hung Yan

We describe the conceptual design of the spectrograph opto-mechanical concept for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) being developed for the SUBARU telescope. The SuMIRe PFS will consist of four identical spectrographs, each…

SCALES is a high-contrast, infrared coronagraphic imager and integral field spectrograph (IFS) to be deployed behind the W.M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics system. A reflective optical design allows diffraction-limited imaging over a…