SpeX Upgrade for IRTF

IRTF 的 SpeX 升级

• 批准号: 0804337
• 负责人: John Rayner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0804337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SpeX; Upgrade; IRTF

The award is to fund a detector array and controller upgrade for SpeX, a medium resolution spectrograph commissioned on the InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF) in 2000. This upgrade to the instrument will enable this unique instrument to continue having a productive life. It will improve the sensitivity of the instrument as well give broader simultaneous wavelength coverage. All observing programs will benefit from this upgrade, in particular the observations of Near Earth Objects as well as ultracool brown dwarfs and high red-shift quasars.

该合同是为2000年在红外望远镜设施（IRTF）上服役的中分辨率光谱仪SpeX的探测器阵列和控制器升级提供资金。这一仪器的升级将使这一独特的仪器继续具有生产寿命。它将提高仪器的灵敏度，并提供更广泛的同时波长覆盖。所有的观测项目都将受益于这次升级，特别是对近地天体、超冷褐矮星和高红移类星体的观测。