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7 March 2003 A wide-field infrared camera for the Observatoire du mont Megantic
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A wide-field near-infrared (0.8 - 2.4 μm) camera for the 1.6 m telescope of the Observatoire du mont Megantic (OMM), is currently under construction at the Universite de Montreal. The field of view is 30' × 30' and will have very little distortion. The optics comprise 8 spherical cryogenic lenses. The instrument features two filter wheels with provision for 10 filters including broad band I, z, J, H, K and other narrow-band filters. The camera is based on a 2048 × 2048 HgCdTe Hawaii-2 detector driven by a 3--output SDSU-II controller operating at ~250 kHz.
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Etienne Artigau, Rene Doyon, Daniel Nadeau, Philippe Vallee, and Simon Thibault "A wide-field infrared camera for the Observatoire du mont Megantic", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461749
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KEYWORDS
Cameras

Sensors

Distortion

K band

Optical filters

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Telescopes

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