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The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is an innovative all-refracting telescope designed to carry out ultra-low surface brightness wide-field mapping of visible wavelength line emission. Equipped with ultranarrowband (0.8 nm bandwidth) filters…
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We present the wide field slitless spectroscopy mode of the NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. This mode employs two orthogonal low-resolution (resolving power $\approx 150$) grisms in combination with a set of six…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-03-09
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The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) aims to be the premier next generation large diameter (50-meter) single dish observatory capable of observations across the millimeter/sub-millimeter spectrum, from 30 to 950~GHz.…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2024-09-11
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A deep all-sky imaging hard x-ray survey and wide-field monitor is needed to extend soft (ROSAT) and medium (ABRIXAS2) x-ray surveys into the 10-100 keV band (and beyond) at comparable sensitivity (~0.05 mCrab). This would enable discovery…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-09-17
J. Grindlay , L. Bildsten , D. Chakrabarty , M. Elvis , A. Fabian , F. Fiore , N. Gehrels , C. Hailey , F. Harrison , D. Hartmann , T. Prince , B. Ramsey , R. Rothschild , G. Skinner , S. Woosley
We broadly discuss mid-infrared spectroscopy and detail our new high spectral resolution instrument, the Texas Echelon-cross-Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES).
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
M. J. Richter , J. H. Lacy , D. T. Jaffe , T. K. Greathouse , Q. Zhu
We present two novel designs for a telescope suitable for massively-multiplexed spectroscopy. The first is a very wide field Cassegrain telescope optimised for fibre feeding. It provides a Field Of View (FOV) of 2.5 degrees diameter with a…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-11-23
L. Pasquini , B. Delabre , R. Ellis , T. de Zeeuw
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4m space telescope with a 0.281 deg^2 field of view for near-IR imaging and slitless spectroscopy and a coronagraph designed for > 10^8 starlight suppresion. As background information…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-02-18
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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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