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Technical issues are causing this color warp |
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The DEIMOS Spectrograph, pictured
here as an older 3D engineering model. Javaheads, take a byte of this.
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The more recent DEIMOS Spectrograph,
pictured here under construction as of September 2000.
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The most recent, up to the second view of the DEIMOS Spectrograph
available using the all new DEIMOS
WEBCAM.
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DEIMOS is a general purpose, faint object, multi-slit, double-beam spectrograph designed to operate at the right Nasmyth platform of the 10 meter Keck-II telescope located atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It utilizes slitmasks to allow the spectra from many objects (approx 80 per barrel!) to be imaged onto a mosaicked CCD array. Some of the key features are wide spectral coverage (up to 5000 Å per exposure), high spectral resolution (down to ~1 Å), high throughput, and long slit length on the sky (32'.6, sum of both barrels). DEIMOS operates in three modes: direct imaging, single-object spectroscopy, and multi-object, long-slit spectroscopy. DEIMOS will share the Nasmyth platform with the UCLA IR instrument NIRSPEC.
The Principal Investigator on this project is Sandra Faber. There is an Official
DEIMOS home page which is maintained by Steve Allen of the UCO/Lick software
group. He is currently working with a R.A.I.D.
of Quantum disks to store the tremendous amount of data generated by the
array of CCDs. Work is being done on the GUI, mask fabrication, and data reduction
by Drew Phillips.
Recent work on DEIMOS has been slow owing to the higher priority put on finishing
the ESI spectrograph in the Lick Shops.
--Last updated November 8, 2000--
