The MagE Spectrograph

(2) MIT; (3) UCO Lick; (4)Las Campanas Observatory); Bruce C. Bigelow (3); Christoph Birk (1); Greg Ortiz (1) ((1) Carnegie Observatories; Gregory Burley (1); Ian B. Thompson (1); Jerson Castillo (1); J. L. Marshall (1)

arxiv: 0807.3774 · v1 · submitted 2008-07-24 · 🌌 astro-ph

The MagE Spectrograph

J. L. Marshall (1) , Scott Burles (2) , Ian B. Thompson (1) , Stephen A. Shectman (1) , Bruce C. Bigelow (3) , Gregory Burley (1) , Christoph Birk (1) , Jorge Estrada (1)

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Patricio Jones (4) Matthew Smith (2) Vince Kowal (1) Jerson Castillo (1) Robert Storts (1) Greg Ortiz (1) ((1) Carnegie Observatories (2) MIT (3) UCO Lick (4)Las Campanas Observatory)

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The Magellan Echellette (MagE) spectrograph is a single-object optical echellette spectrograph for the Magellan Clay telescope. MagE has been designed to have high throughput in the blue; the peak throughput is 22% at 5600 A including the telescope. The wavelength coverage includes the entire optical window (3100 A - 1 micron). The spectral resolution for a 1" slit is R~4100. MagE is a very simple spectrograph with only four moving parts, prism cross-dispersion, and a vacuum Schmidt camera. The instrument saw first light in November 2007 and is now routinely taking science observations.

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The MagE Spectrograph

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