SOAR Optical Imager

Alistair R. Walker; Maxime Boccas; Marco Bonati; Ramon Galvez; Manual Martinez; Patricio Schurter; Ricardo E. Schmidt; Michael C. Ashe; Francisco Delgado; Roberto Tighe

doi:10.1117/12.457977

7 March 2003 The SOAR Optical Imager

Alistair R. Walker, Maxime Boccas, Marco Bonati, Ramon Galvez, Manual Martinez, Patricio Schurter, Ricardo E. Schmidt, Michael C. Ashe, Francisco Delgado, Roberto Tighe

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Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457977
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The SOAR Optical Imager (SOI) is the commissioning instrument for the 4.2-m SOAR telescope, which is sited on Cerro Pachón, and due for first light in April 2003. It is being built at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and is one of a suite of first-light instruments being provided by the four SOAR partners (NOAO, Brazil, University of North Carolina, Michigan State University). The instrument is designed to produce precision photometry and to fully exploit the expected superb image quality of the SOAR telescope, over a 6x6 arcmin field. Design goals include maintaining high throughput down to the atmospheric cut-off, and close reproduction of photometric passbands throughout 310-1050nm. The focal plane consists of a two-CCD mosaic of 2Kx4K Lincoln Labs CCDs, following an atmospheric dispersion corrector, focal reducer, and tip-tilt sensor. Control and data handling are within the LabVIEW-Linux environment used throughout the SOAR Project.

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Alistair R. Walker, Maxime Boccas, Marco Bonati, Ramon Galvez, Manual Martinez, Patricio Schurter, Ricardo E. Schmidt, Michael C. Ashe, Francisco Delgado, and Roberto Tighe "The SOAR Optical Imager", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457977

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