The 6.5 meter MMT's f/5 wide-field optics and instruments

D. Fabricant; R. Fata; B. McLeod; A. Szentgyorgyi; J. Barberis; H. Bergner; W. Brown; N. Caldwell; M. Conroy; R. Eng; H. Epps; G. Furesz; T. Gauron; J. Geary; R. Goddard; L. Hartmann; E. Hertz; M. Honsa; M. Mueller; T. Norton; M. Ordway; J. Roll; G. Williams; D. Freedman-Woods; J. Zajac

doi:10.1117/12.551729

The 6.5 meter MMT's f/5 wide-field optics and instruments

D. Fabricant, R. Fata, B. McLeod, A. Szentgyorgyi, J. Barberis, H. Bergner, W. Brown, N. Caldwell, M. Conroy, R. Eng, H. Epps, G. Furesz, T. Gauron, J. Geary, R. Goddard, L. Hartmann, E. Hertz, M. Honsa, M. Mueller, T. NortonM. Ordway, J. Roll, G. Williams, D. Freedman-Woods, J. Zajac

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Abstract

In 2003, the converted MMT's wide-field f/5 focus was commissioned. A 1. 7-m diameter secondary and a large refractive corrector offer a 1° diameter field of view for spectroscopy and a 0.5° diameter field of view for imaging. Stellar images during excellent seeing are smaller than 0.5″ FWHM across the spectroscopic field of view, and smaller than 0.4″ across the imaging field of view. Three wide-field f/5 instruments are now in routine operation: Hectospec (an R∼1000 optical spectrograph fed by 300 robotically-positioned optical fibers), Hectochelle (an R∼40,000 optical spectrograph fed by the same fibers), and Megacam (a 340 megapixel, 36 CCD optical imager covering a 25′ by 25′ format).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	767-778
Number of pages	12
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5492
Issue number	PART 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551729
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 21 2004 → Jun 25 2004

Keywords

Ccd mosaic
Imagers
Optical design
Spectrographs
Telescopes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Fabricant, D., Fata, R., McLeod, B., Szentgyorgyi, A., Barberis, J., Bergner, H., Brown, W., Caldwell, N., Conroy, M., Eng, R., Epps, H., Furesz, G., Gauron, T., Geary, J., Goddard, R., Hartmann, L., Hertz, E., Honsa, M., Mueller, M., ... Zajac, J. (2004). The 6.5 meter MMT's f/5 wide-field optics and instruments. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5492(PART 2), 767-778. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551729

Fabricant, D, Fata, R, McLeod, B, Szentgyorgyi, A, Barberis, J, Bergner, H, Brown, W, Caldwell, N, Conroy, M, Eng, R, Epps, H, Furesz, G, Gauron, T, Geary, J, Goddard, R, Hartmann, L, Hertz, E, Honsa, M, Mueller, M, Norton, T, Ordway, M, Roll, J, Williams, G, Freedman-Woods, D & Zajac, J 2004, 'The 6.5 meter MMT's f/5 wide-field optics and instruments', Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 5492, no. PART 2, pp. 767-778. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551729

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