Title

Fisica: The Florida Image Slicer For Infrared Cosmology &Amp; Astrophysics

Keywords

Diamond turning; Image slicer; Infrared; Integral field; Spectroscopy

Abstract

We report on the design, fabrication, and on-sky performance of the Florida Image Slicer for Infrared Cosmology and Astrophysics (FISICA) - a fully-cryogenic all-reflective image-slicing integral field unit for the FLAMINGOS nearinfrared spectrograph. Designed to accept input beams near f/15, FISICA with FLAMINGOS provides R∼1300 spectra over a 16×33-arcsec field-of-view on the Cassegrain f/15 focus of the KPNO 4-meter telescope, or a 6×12-arcsec field-of-view on the Nasmyth or Bent Cassegrain foci of the Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.4-meter telescope, FISICA accomplishes this using three sets of "monolithic" powered mirror arrays, each with 22 mirrored surfaces cut into a single piece of aluminum. We review the optical and opto-mechanical design and fabrication of FISICA, as well as laboratory test results for FISICA integrated with the FLAMINGOS instrument, Finally, we present performance results from observations with FISICA at the KPNO 4-m telescope and comparisons of FISICA performance to other available IFUs on 4-m to 8-m-class telescopes.

Publication Date

10-9-2006

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

6269 III

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672184

Socpus ID

33749319237 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33749319237

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