MMIRS is the next new instrument that will be arriving for commissioning at the MMT. The ‘MMT and Magellan InfraRed Spectrograph’ is a wide field near-IR imager and slit mask multi-object spectrograph being built by the team at the CfA led by Brian McLeod. It has two basic operational modes:
IMAGING:
- 7′ x 7′ FOV
- 0.2″ pixels
- Y, J, H & K wavelength coverage
SPECTROSCOPY:
- Multi-slit (4′ x 7′ FOV)
- or longslit (7′ length and 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.2, 1.8, 2.4″ widths)
- J, H, K @ R = 3000
- JH & HK @ R = 1200
Current delivery/commissioning date is March 2009. For more information regarding MMIRS please contact Morag Hastie (mhastie ‘at’ mmto ‘dot’ org).
MMIRS in the lab at the CPD in Cambridge undergoing thermal testing.
