The FourStar Infrared Camera

(2) Johns Hopkins; (3) Dedicated Micro Systems); Alan Uomoto (1) ((1) Carnegie Observatories; Albert Harding (2); Christoph Birk (1); David Murphy (1); E. R. Koch (3); Gregg Scharfstein (2); J. L. Marshall (1); Joe Orndorff (2)

arxiv: 0807.3777 · v1 · submitted 2008-07-24 · 🌌 astro-ph

The FourStar Infrared Camera

S. E. Persson (1) , Robert Barkhouser (2) , Christoph Birk (1) , Randy Hammond (2) , Albert Harding (2) , E. R. Koch (3) , J. L. Marshall (1) , Patrick J. McCarthy (1)

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David Murphy (1) Joe Orndorff (2) Gregg Scharfstein (2) Stephen A. Shectman (1) Stephen Smee (2) Alan Uomoto (1) ((1) Carnegie Observatories (2) Johns Hopkins (3) Dedicated Micro Systems)

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The FourStar infrared camera is a 1.0-2.5 micron (JHKs) near infrared camera for the Magellan Baade 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile). It is being built by Carnegie Observatories and the Instrument Development Group at Johns Hopkins and is scheduled for completion in 2009. The instrument uses four Teledyne HAWAII-2RG arrays that produce a 10.9 x 10.9 arcmin field of view. The outstanding seeing at the Las Campanas site coupled with FourStar's high sensitivity and large field of view will enable many new survey and targeted science programs.

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The FourStar Infrared Camera

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