Subject: IR instrumentation possibility for APO

From: Jon Holtzman

Submitted: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:51:57 -0600

Message number: 508 (previous: 507, next: 509 up: Index)

To the ARC user community,

  As previously discussed, APO is interested in getting a new IR instrument.
Several possibilities have recently surfaced.

  One of these is an instrument called RIVMOS (Rapid Infra-red and Visible
Multi-Object Spectrograph), which is being built by a team at GSFC led by 
Harvey Moseley and including Alexander Kutynev, Bruce Woodgate, and Jian Ge 
(Penn State); they are building this with funding from NGST for a prototype 
instrument to demonstrate the capabilities of a microshutter array, to be
potentially used for fully configurable multi-object spectroscopy. The
basic instrument would have both imaging and spectroscopic modes, using
a 1024x1024 InSb detector.

  The current message is to point interested users towards more details at
              http://loki.apo.nmsu.edu/3.5m/rivmos
for the purpose of determining how much interest there is in such an
instrument and also to solicit suggestsion for the technical specifications
for the instrument (filters, spectral resolution, etc. etc.); there may still 
be time to refine some aspects of the design. Please let me know if you have 
any comments, suggestions, etc.

Jon Holtzman


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