Title

Fisica: The Florida Image Slicer For Infrared Cosmology And Astrophysics

Keywords

Integral field units

Abstract

We report on the design and status of the Florida Image Slicer for Infrared Cosmology and Astrophysics (FISICA) - a fully-cryogenic all-reflective image-slicing integral field unit for the FLAMINGOS near-infrared spectrograph. Designed to accept input beams near f/15, FISICA with FLAMINGOS provides R ∼ 1300 spectra over a 16 × 33″ field-of-view on the Cassegrain f/15 focus of the KPNO 4-m telescope, or a 6 × 12″ field-of-view on the Nasmyth or Bent Cassegrain foci of the Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.4-m 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, fabrication, laboratory test results, and on-telescope performance for FISICA. © 2006.

Publication Date

6-1-2006

Publication Title

New Astronomy Reviews

Volume

50

Issue

4-5

Number of Pages

365-369

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2006.02.038

Socpus ID

33744934523 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33744934523

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