Graduate Student Participation and Optics Upgrades for the Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment

佛罗里达大学正在设计和建造加那利群岛红外照相机实验，这是一种近红外开放使用的客用仪器，用于即将完成的加那利群岛10.4米望远镜。该相机是一个全反射式1-2.5微米成像仪，具有3.4x3.4弧分的视场，为窄带成像、低分辨率和中等分辨率的棱镜光谱学和成像偏振测量提供了内置的升级路径。这台相机和Gran Telsescopio Canarias的结合将产生世界上最强大的近红外科学工具之一，能够进行从微类星体到恒星群到高红移星系演化的广泛研究（包括目前由NSF资助的至少8个项目）。本项目将支持两名研究生参与相机的设计，制造，集成和调试，以及用于填充仪器的窄带成像，光谱和偏振升级的资金。这项工作为两名研究生提供了重要的天文仪器培训机会，也大大提高了相机的科学生产力。

AST-0352664/Eikenberry, U FloridaThe University of Florida is designing and building the Canarias Infrared Camera Experiment, a near-infrared open-use guest instrument for the soon-to-be-completed Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.4-meter telescope. The camera is an all-reflective 1-2.5 micron imager with a 3.4x3.4-arcminute field-of-view, offering built-in upgrade paths for narrow-band imaging, low- and moderate-resolution grism spectroscopy and imaging polarimetry. The combination of this camera and the Gran Telsescopio Canarias will produce one of the most powerful near-infrared scientific tools in the world, enabling a broad range of investigations from microquasars to stellar populations to high-redshift galaxy evolution (including at least eight projects currently funded by NSF). The present project will support the involvement of two graduate students in the design, fabrication, integration, and commissioning of the camera, as well as funds to populate the narrow-band imaging, spectroscopic, and polarimetric upgrades to the instrument. This work provides important training opportunities in astronomical instrumentation to two graduate students, and also greatly enhances the scientific productivity of the camera.