Ongoing and future instrument upgrades at Gemini

Ruben Diaz; Stephen Goodsell; Scot Kleinman; Paul Hirst

doi:10.1117/12.2562401

13 December 2020 Ongoing and future instrument upgrades at Gemini

Ruben Diaz, Stephen Goodsell, Scot Kleinman, Paul Hirst

Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114477E (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562401
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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Abstract

Gemini Observatory is committed to providing its community with the best possible competitive instrumentation suite given technological and budget constraints. The Observatory operates 4 facility instruments plus 1 AO system at each 8m telescope. It is incorporating a new facility high resolution spectrograph, building a major workhorse multi-channel instrument for transient sources follow up, and designing a new multi-conjugate AO system. We also run three major upgrades of workhorse instruments and a long-term program to support user motivated upgrades. This paper provides a summary of results of the last three years of the instrument upgrades program and an update on our strategy to keep our instrumentation suite competitive.

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Ruben Diaz, Stephen Goodsell, Scot Kleinman, and Paul Hirst "Ongoing and future instrument upgrades at Gemini", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114477E (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562401

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