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30 September 2004 FLAMINGOS-2: the facility near-infrared wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph for Gemini
Stephen S. Eikenberry, Richard Elston, S. Nicholas Raines, Jeff Julian, Richard J. Corley, Kevin Hanna, David Hon, Roger Julian, David Rashkin, Brian Leckie, W. Rusty Gardhouse, Murray Fletcher, Jennifer Dunn, Robert Wooff
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We report on the design and status of the FLAMINGOS-2 instrument - a fully-cryogenic facility near-infrared imager and multi-object spectrograph for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes. FLAMINGOS-2 has a refractive all-spherical optical system providing 0.18-arcsecond pixels and a 6.2-arcminute circular field-of-view on a 2048x2048-pixel HAWAII-2 0.9-2.4 mm detector array. A slit/Dekker wheel mechanism allows the selection of up to 9 multi-object laser-machined plates or 3 long slits for spectroscopy over a 6x2-arcminute field of view, and selectable grisms provide resolutions from ~1300 to ~3000 over the entire spectrograph bandpass. FLAMINGOS-2 is also compatible with the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics system, providing multi-object spectroscopic capabilities over a 3x1-arcminute field with high spatial resolution (0.09-arcsec/pixel). We review the designs of optical, mechanical, electronics, software, and On-Instrument WaveFront Sensor subsystems. We also present the current status of the project, midway through its construction phase in June 2004.
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Stephen S. Eikenberry, Richard Elston, S. Nicholas Raines, Jeff Julian, Richard J. Corley, Kevin Hanna, David Hon, Roger Julian, David Rashkin, Brian Leckie, W. Rusty Gardhouse, Murray Fletcher, Jennifer Dunn, and Robert Wooff "FLAMINGOS-2: the facility near-infrared wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph for Gemini", Proc. SPIE 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, (30 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.549796
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Molybdenum

Gemini Observatory

Telescopes

Astronomical imaging

Cameras

Detector arrays

Spectrographs

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