The SCORPIO instrument: status update and path forward

Todd Veach; Peter Roming; Antonina Brody; Kelly Smith; Ronnie Killough; Kristian Persson; Susan Pope; Andrew Peterson; Jason Stange; Rebecca Thibodeaux; Alexa Mathias; Carl Schwendeman; Adam Thornton; Guy Grubbs; Ernesto Verastegui II; Scott Sutherland; Thomas Lechner; Marísa Luisa García-Vargas; Manuel Maldonado Medina; Ana Pérez Calpena; Ernesto Sanchez-Blanco; Gerardo Veredas; Massimo Robberto; Alexander van der Horst; Landon Gelman; Stephen Smee; Stephen Hope; Robert Barkhouser; Dana Koeppe

doi:10.1117/12.2634061

29 August 2022 The SCORPIO instrument: status update and path forward

Todd Veach, Peter Roming, Antonina Brody, Kelly Smith, Ronnie Killough, Kristian Persson, Susan Pope, Andrew Peterson, Jason Stange, Rebecca Thibodeaux, Alexa Mathias, Carl Schwendeman, Adam Thornton, Guy Grubbs, Ernesto Verastegui II, Scott Sutherland, Thomas Lechner, Marísa Luisa García-Vargas, Manuel Maldonado Medina, Ana Pérez Calpena, Ernesto Sanchez-Blanco, Gerardo Veredas, Massimo Robberto, Alexander van der Horst, Landon Gelman, Stephen Smee, Stephen Hope, Robert Barkhouser, Dana Koeppe

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Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 1218468 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2634061
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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SCORPIO (Spectrograph and Camera for the Observation of Rapid Phenomena in the Infrared and Optical) is a multiband instrument covering 0.385um to 2.35um in spectroscopy and 0.400um to 2.35um in imaging, currently under development for the Gemini Observatory. The instrument is intended to be deployed as a facility instrument at Gemini South in Chile to enable detailed follow-up observations of transients detected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The instrument is designed with eight parallel channels corresponding to the standard g, r, i, z, Y, J, H, and Ks passbands. Here we present an update on the status of the instrument, the data reduction software, and the current path forward to completion.

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Todd Veach, Peter Roming, Antonina Brody, Kelly Smith, Ronnie Killough, Kristian Persson, Susan Pope, Andrew Peterson, Jason Stange, Rebecca Thibodeaux, Alexa Mathias, Carl Schwendeman, Adam Thornton, Guy Grubbs, Ernesto Verastegui II, Scott Sutherland, Thomas Lechner, Marísa Luisa García-Vargas, Manuel Maldonado Medina, Ana Pérez Calpena, Ernesto Sanchez-Blanco, Gerardo Veredas, Massimo Robberto, Alexander van der Horst, Landon Gelman, Stephen Smee, Stephen Hope, Robert Barkhouser, and Dana Koeppe "The SCORPIO instrument: status update and path forward", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 1218468 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2634061

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