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ARCETRI INFRARED GROUP |
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An Infrared Instrumental Group is active at Arcetri Observatory.
Activities include the development and construction of
infrared instrumentation, the scientific characterization of
new instrumentation, and the developing of related software.
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Activities |
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The activities of the group started at the end of 70's with the building of
FIRT:
the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope
(TIRGO).
The group has also developed a large amount of
software
and procedures in order to define
all the relevant parameters of the systems.
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The list of the instruments and software partially or totally developed by our group includes:
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FIRT:
the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope
(TIRGO).
- ArNICa
the infrared camera for TIRGO.
- Irlab and Tirgo Data Archive.
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NICS, the NIR
camera/spectrometer for the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo.
- Amber-SPG,
the beam combining spectrometer part for
Amber,
the VLTI focal-plane imaging/spectrometer.
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Giano, the high/low resolution infrared spectrometer
proposed for the TNG.
See also the local
Labir4Giano pages.
- MOONS,
Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT.
- SpectralGpu
the GPU based Radio Wavelength Spectrometer.
- SKA local
development documentation for SKA
More on Instrument page.
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In addition to the development of the above instruments, we also carried
some observations in collaboration with the science groups of
Arcetry Observatory. In this context, we modified ARNICA in order
to mount it on several telescopes, including the
William Herschel Telescope,
the Nordic Telescope,
the Vatt
Observatory, the Mount
Graham International Observatory, and the
TNG.
Observations outside TIRGO started in 1993 with few technical problems
and important astronomical results.
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More informations on these topics:
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Last Modified:
13/Nov/2014
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