Adapting a very high resolution echelle spectrograph to an 8 meter class telescope

Robert O. Reynolds; Lee Dettmann

doi:10.1117/12.2055272

10 July 2014 Adapting a very high resolution echelle spectrograph to an 8 meter class telescope

Robert O. Reynolds, Lee Dettmann

Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91477X (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055272
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Adaptively Corrected Echelle Spectrograph (ACES) high resolution echelle spectrograph was originally developed at Steward Observatory to couple adaptively-corrected stellar images to the instrument using a near single mode optical fiber to give R~190,000 at V band. We explore here the feasibility of using the spectrograph with the 2x8.4m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), preserving the fiber coupling for instrument isolation and illumination stability, but employing either a narrow slit or image slicer to offset the smaller component size and thereby preserve high resolution. Such a combination could offer simultaneously higher resolution with greater wavelength coverage per exposure than the configuration of alternate instruments.

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Robert O. Reynolds and Lee Dettmann "Adapting a very high resolution echelle spectrograph to an 8 meter class telescope", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91477X (10 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055272

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