Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baffa, C.
• Comoretto, G.
• Gennari, S.
• Lisi, F.
• Oliva, E.
• Biliotti, V.
• Checcucci, A.
• Gavrioussev, V.
• Giani, E.
• Ghinassi, F.
• Hunt, L. K.
• Maiolino, R.
• Mannucci, F.
• Marcucci, G.
• Sozzi, M.
• Stefanini, P.
• Testi, L.

Titel

NICS: The TNG Near Infrared Camera Spectrometer

Ist Teil von

• Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2001-11, Vol.378 (2), p.722-728

Ort / Verlag

EDP Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• NICS (the Near Infrared Camera Spectrometer) is a cooled near-infrared camera-spectrometer that has been developed by the Arcetri Infrared Group at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, in collaboration with the CAISMI-CNR for the TNG (the Italian National Telescope Galileo at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain). As NICS is in its scientific commissioning phase, we report its observing capabilities in the near-infrared bands at the TNG, along with the measured performance and the limiting magnitudes. We also describe some technical details of the project, such as cryogenics, mechanics, and the system which executes data acquisition and control, along with the related software.