... NIFS is a near-infrared integral-field spectrograph being developed for the Gemini 8 m telescope project by the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics which is part of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University . ...
... Thus all regions of the 0.94-2.50 micron wavelength range accessible from Mauna Kea can be recorded using five fixed angle gratings. ... Grating Angle . ... Efficiencies for the NIFS gratings are shown above. The NIFS spectrograph uses a Bouwers...
The diffraction image FWHM at 2.2 microns on the Gemini 8 m telescope is about 0.07". Consequently, a spectrograph with a 0.10" slit is essentially diffraction limited in the K band. ... Slit diffraction causes divergence in the spectral direction of...
In calculating the NIFS sensitivity, we adopt a read noise of 5 e - , a dark current of 0.01 e - s -1 pix -1 , and a maximum exposure time of 3600 s. Grating . ... e/pix) . ... OH Cont. (e/pix) . ... NIFS should achieve signal-to-noise ratios of ~ 10...
... NIFS will therefore use the 2048 2048 18 micron pixel HgCdTe HAWAII-2 array available from the Rockwell Science Center . ... The Rockwell 2048 2048 array will have been used with SDSU-2 controllers at the University of Hawaii before NIFS is...
... Adam Thomas . "PhD thesis proposal: Constraining AGN properties with integral field spectroscopy of Seyfert galaxies". ... AGN) are, why they are interesting, and how I ll use integral field unit (IFU) data to investigate the properties of AGN and ...
... PASA, 16, 273: "Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS): An Instrument ... SPIE, 4841-178: "Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS)" ( pdf ... P., Bloxham, G. 2002, SPIE, 4841-34: "NIFS Concentric Integral Field Unit" ( pdf ...