The paper reports the design, commissioning on two runs, and measured performance of proto-Lightspeed, a seeing-limited high-speed imager delivering sub-electron read noise on the Magellan Clay Telescope.
Status update of LLAMAS: a wide field-of-view visible passband IFU for the 6.5m magellan telescopes,
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A trade study for WST IFS finds that replicating many simpler spectrographs often outperforms fewer complex units on technical, economic, and ecological metrics.
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proto-Lightspeed: a high-speed, ultra-low read noise imager on the Magellan Clay Telescope
The paper reports the design, commissioning on two runs, and measured performance of proto-Lightspeed, a seeing-limited high-speed imager delivering sub-electron read noise on the Magellan Clay Telescope.
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Guiding Design Choices for Wide-Field IFS: Trade-Offs Between Replication and Complexity for WST
A trade study for WST IFS finds that replicating many simpler spectrographs often outperforms fewer complex units on technical, economic, and ecological metrics.