Bibcode
Telesco, Charles M.; Ciardi, David; French, James; Ftaclas, Christ; Hanna, Kevin T.; Hon, David B.; Hough, James H.; Julian, Jeffrey; Julian, Roger; Kidger, Mark; Packham, Chris C.; Pina, Robert K.; Varosi, Frank; Sellar, R. Glenn
Bibliographical reference
Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Iye, Masanori; Moorwood, Alan F. M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4841, pp. 913-922 (2003).
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2003
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Description
The University of Florida is developing a mid-infrared camera for the
10.4-meter Gran Telescopio CANARIAS. CanariCam has four science modes
and two engineering modes, which use the same 320 x 240-pixel,
arsenic-doped silicon, blocked-impurity-band detector from Raytheon.
Each mode can be remotely selected quickly during an observing sequence.
The pixel scale is 0.08 arcsec, resulting in Nyquist sampling of the
diffraction-limited point-spread-function at 8 μm, the shortest
wavelength for which CanariCam is optimized. The total available field
of view for imaging is 26 arcsec x 19 arcsec. The primary science mode
will be diffraction-limited imaging using one of several available
spectral filters in the 10 μm (8-14 μm) and 20 μm (16-25 μm)
atmospheric windows. Any one of four plane gratings can be inserted for
low and moderate-resolution (R = 100 - 1300) slit spectroscopy in the 10
and 20-μm regions. Insertion of appropriate field and pupil stops
converts the camera into a coronagraph, while insertion of an internal
rotating half-wave plate, a field mask, and a Wollaston prism converts
the camera into a dual-beam polarimeter.