CIRPASS - The Cambridge IR PAnoramic Survey Spectrograph

Instrument Description and Current Status
 
 
 

* brief description of instrument, FOVs, IFU geometry, spectral
  resolutions, wavelength range, wavelength coverage, etc.
* current status, detector, filters
* measured performance in lab and on sky using 8-inch telescope -
  emphasise that current performance meets requirements of proposed
  observing program.
* data reduction software overview
* description of data reduction process showing various stages from raw to
  reduced data
* possible improvements before Aug - 2K detector.


URL http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/cirpass/cirpass-tech-description.htm - Revised: 14 Feb 2002.

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