Focal Plane Alignment and Detector Characterization for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

Murdock Hart; Robert H. Barkhouser; Michael Carr; Mirek Golebiowski; James E. Gunn; Stephen C. Hope; Stephen A. Smee

doi:10.1117/12.2057558

Focal Plane Alignment and Detector Characterization for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2015-06-22 v1

Authors: Murdock Hart , Robert H. Barkhouser , Michael Carr , Mirek Golebiowski , James E. Gunn , Stephen C. Hope , Stephen A. Smee

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We describe the infrastructure being developed to align and characterize the detectors for the Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe) Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS). PFS will employ four three-channel spectrographs with an operating wavelength range of 3800 $\AA$ to 12600 $\AA$ . Each spectrograph will be comprised of two visible channels and one near infrared (NIR) channel, where each channel will use a separate Schmidt camera to image the captured spectra onto their respective detectors. In the visible channels, Hamamatsu 2k x 4k CCDs will be mounted in pairs to create a single 4k x 4k detector, while the NIR channel will use a single Teledyne 4k x 4k H4RG HgCdTe device.

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astronomical instrumentation and telescopes solar instrument calibration

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@article{arxiv.1408.2822,
  title  = {Focal Plane Alignment and Detector Characterization for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph},
  author = {Murdock Hart and Robert H. Barkhouser and Michael Carr and Mirek Golebiowski and James E. Gunn and Stephen C. Hope and Stephen A. Smee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2822},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 27 figures, SPIE ATI Montreal 2014

Focal Plane Alignment and Detector Characterization for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

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