LUCIFER: a multimode NIR instrument for the LBT

Walter Seifert; Immo Appenzeller; Harald Baumeister; Peter Bizenberger; Dominik Bomans; Ralf-Juergen Dettmar; Bernard Grimm; Tom Herbst; Reiner Hofmann; Marcus Juette; Werner Laun; Michael Lehmitz; Roland Lemke; Rainer Lenzen; Holger Mandel; K. Polsterer; Ralf-Rainer Rohloff; A. Schuetze; Andreas Seltmann; Niranjan A. Thatte; Peter Weiser; Wenli Xu

doi:10.1117/12.459494

7 March 2003 LUCIFER: a Multi-Mode NIR Instrument for the LBT

Walter Seifert, Immo Appenzeller, Harald Baumeister, Peter Bizenberger, Dominik Bomans, Ralf-Juergen Dettmar, Bernard Grimm, Tom Herbst, Reiner Hofmann, Marcus Juette, Werner Laun, Michael Lehmitz, Roland Lemke, Rainer Lenzen, Holger Mandel, K. Polsterer, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, A. Schuetze, Andreas Seltmann, Niranjan A. Thatte, Peter Weiser, Wenli Xu

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Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459494
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

LUCIFER (LBT NIR-Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral-Field Unit for Extragalactic Research) is a NIR spectrograph and imager for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mt. Graham, Arizona. It is built by a consortium of five German institutes and will be one of the first light instruments for the LBT. Later, a second copy for the second mirror of the telescope will follow. Both instruments will be mounted at the bent Gregorian foci of the two individual telescope mirrors. The final design of the instrument is presently in progress. LUCIFER will work at cryogenic temperature in the wavelength range from 0.9 μm to 2.5 μm. It is equipped with three exchangeable cameras for imaging and spectroscopy: two of them are optimized for seeing-limited conditions, the third camera for the diffraction-limited case with the LBT adaptive secondary mirror working. The spectral resolution will allow for OH suppression. Up to 33 exchangeable masks will be available for longslit and multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) over the full field of view (FOV). The detector will be a Rockwell HAWAII-2 HgCdTe-array.

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Walter Seifert, Immo Appenzeller, Harald Baumeister, Peter Bizenberger, Dominik Bomans, Ralf-Juergen Dettmar, Bernard Grimm, Tom Herbst, Reiner Hofmann, Marcus Juette, Werner Laun, Michael Lehmitz, Roland Lemke, Rainer Lenzen, Holger Mandel, K. Polsterer, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, A. Schuetze, Andreas Seltmann, Niranjan A. Thatte, Peter Weiser, and Wenli Xu "LUCIFER: a Multi-Mode NIR Instrument for the LBT", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459494

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