Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
OCTOCAM: A fast multichannel imager and spectrograph for the 10.4m GTC |
| Authors: |
Postigo, Antonio de Ugarte, Gorosabel, Javier, Spano, Paolo, Riva, Marco, Rabaza, Ovidio, de Caprio, Vincenzo, Cuniffe, Ronan, Kubanek, Petr, Riva, Alberto, Jelinek, Martin, Andersen, Michael I., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Zerbi, Filippo M., Fernandez-Soto, Alberto |
| Publication Year: |
2010 |
| Collection: |
Astrophysics |
| Subject Terms: |
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| More Details: |
OCTOCAM is a multi-channel imager and spectrograph that has been proposed for the 10.4m GTC telescope. It will use dichroics to split the incoming light to produce simultaneous observations in 8 different bands, ranging from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared. The imaging mode will have a field of view of 2' x 2' in u, g, r, i, z, J, H and Ks bands, whereas the long-slit spectroscopic mode will cover the complete range from 4,000 to 23,000 {\AA} with a resolution of 700 - 1,700 (depending on the arm and slit width). An additional mode, using an image slicer, will deliver a spectral resolution of over 3,000. As a further feature, it will use state of the art detectors to reach high readout speeds of the order of tens of milliseconds. In this way, OCTOCAM will be occupying a region of the time resolution - spectral resolution - spectral coverage diagram that is not covered by a single instrument in any other observatory, with an exceptional sensitivity.
Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, SPIE 2010 Astronomical Instrumentation |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.856912 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1830 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1009.1830 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
