In the temporal study of faint, extended sources at high resolving power, Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer (SHS) can offer significant advantages about conventional dispersive grating spectrometers. We describe here a four-year continuous progress in Mt. Hamilton, Lick Observatory, toward development of a prototype reflective Spacial Heterodyne Spectrometer, Khayyam, instrument-telescope configuration to combine all of the capabilities necessary to obtain high resolving power visible band spectra of diffuse targets from small aperture on-axis telescopes where significant observing time can be obtained. We will discuss the design considerations going into this new system, installation, testing of the interferometer-telescope combination, the technical challenges and procedures moving forward.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/622529 |
Date | 04 August 2016 |
Creators | Hosseini, Sona, Harris, Walter |
Contributors | Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), Univ. of Arizona (United States) |
Publisher | SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING |
Source Sets | University of Arizona |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Article |
Rights | © 2016 SPIE |
Relation | http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?doi=10.1117/12.2233120 |
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