The Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS): Performance and data reduction

Michael Dopita; Jonghwan Rhee; Catherine Farage; Peter McGregor; Gabe Bloxham; Anthony Green; Bill Roberts; Jon Neilson; Greg Wilson; Peter Young; Peter Firth; Gianni Busarello; Paola Merluzzi

doi:10.1007/s10509-010-0335-9

The Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS): Performance and data reduction

Michael Dopita^*, Jonghwan Rhee, Catherine Farage, Peter McGregor, Gabe Bloxham, Anthony Green, Bill Roberts, Jon Neilson, Greg Wilson, Peter Young, Peter Firth, Gianni Busarello, Paola Merluzzi

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This paper describes the on-telescope performance of the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS). The design characteristics of this instrument, at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University (ANU) and mounted on the ANU 2.3 m telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory has been already described in an earlier paper (Dopita et al. in Astrophys. Space Sci. 310:255, 2007). Here we describe the throughput, resolution and stability of the instrument, and describe some minor issues which have been encountered. We also give a description of the data reduction pipeline, and show some preliminary results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	245-257
Number of pages	13
Journal	Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume	327
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-010-0335-9
Publication status	Published - Jun 2010

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