Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph (NIFS): An Instrument Proposed for Gemini
Abstract
In late 1998 the International Gemini Project Office identified a need for a low cost, near-infrared spectrograph to be commissioned on the Gemini South telescope on the shortest possible timescale. In response, the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University proposed to design, construct, and commission a near-infrared, integral-field spectrograph on Gemini. The science drivers and novel design of the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph (NIFS) are described in this paper. NIFS will achieve significant economies in cost and schedule in several ways:
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- December 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1071/AS99273
- Bibcode:
- 1999PASA...16..273M
- Keywords:
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- DETECTORS;
- SPECTROGRAPHS;
- SPECTROSCOPY;
- instrumentation: detectors;
- instrumentation: spectrographs;
- techniques: spectroscopic