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EAS Publications Series
Volume 33, 2008
2nd ARENA Conference: The Astrophysical Science Cases at Dome C
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| Page(s) | 289 - 292 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:0833042 | |
| Published online | 13 November 2008 | |
H. Zinnecker, N. Epchtein and H. Rauer (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 33 (2008) 289-292
Infrared wide field camera-spectrographs for a 2m-class telescope at Dome C
1
Departamento de Física Teórica C-XI,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental, INTA, Madrid, Spain
3
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica
Cosmica, Roma, Italy
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Departamento de Física Teórica y del
Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Spain
We are exploring instrumental concepts of Near and Mid InfraRed (NIR, MIR) wide field camera-spectrographs for a 2 m-class telescope at Antarctica. Scientific drivers are star formation and very low mass objects. Both concepts pretend to exploit the unique features of Dome C: superb seeing, low temperature, improved IR transmission and reduced sky background. Two preliminary concepts are presented here. The NIR instrument would cover the wavelength range 0.97–5.0 μm and would be optimized for the K, L and M bands. The MIR instrument would observe in the range 7–30 μm and would be specifically designed to exploit the extended portion of the Q window (20+ μm).
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