Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS)

Peter McGregor; John Hart; Peter Conroy; Leigh Pfitzner; Gabe Bloxham; Damien Jones; Mark Downing; Murray Dawson; Peter Young; Mark Jarnyk; Jan Van Harmelen

doi:10.1117/12.459448

Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS)

Peter McGregor^*, John Hart, Peter Conroy, Leigh Pfitzner, Gabe Bloxham, Damien Jones, Mark Downing, Murray Dawson, Peter Young, Mark Jarnyk, Jan Van Harmelen

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NIFS is a near-infrared integral field spectrograph designed for near diffraction-limited imaging spectroscopy with the ALTAIR facility adaptive optics system on Gemini North. NIFS is currently under construction at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. Commissioning is planned for 2003. NIFS uses a reflective concentric integral field unit to reformat its 3.0″×3.0″ field-of-view into 29 slitlets each 0.1″ wide with 0.04″ sampling along each slitlet. The NIFS spectrograph has a resolving power of ∼ 5300, which is large enough to significantly separate terrestrial airglow emission lines and resolve velocity structure in galaxies. The output format is matched to a 2048×2048 pixel Rockwell HAWAII-2 detector. The detector is read out through a SDSU-2 detector controller connected via a VME interface to the Gemini Data Handling System. NIFS is a fast-tracked instrument that reuses many of the designs of the Gemini Near-InfraRed Imager (NIRI); the cryostat, On-Instrument Wave Front Sensor, control system, and control software are largely duplicates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1581-1591
Number of pages	11
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4841
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459448
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	Instrument Design for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes - Waikoloa, HI, United States Duration: 25 Aug 2002 → 28 Aug 2002

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