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1996PASP..108.1033W - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 108, 1033-1041 (1996/November-0)

MIRFI: a mid-infrared Fabry-Perot imager.

WATARAI H., HAYATA E., MATSUMOTO T., TAKAHASHI H., TUTUI Y., YODA H., MATSUHARA H. and GREENE T.P.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have constructed a mid-infrared Fabry-Perot imager (MIRFI) at Nagoya University. At present, MIRFI is tuned to the 12.813 micron fine structure line of [Ne II], and it provides line images with a spectral resolving power of R ∼ 2500 over a 5X5 pixel Si-P photoconductive detector array. This array has a plate scale of 1.3" pixel^-1 and a field of 8"x8" when mounted on the 3-m NASA Infrared Telescope (IRTF). The Fabry-Perot driving mechanism utilized solenoid magnets and is cooled by liquid He. MIRFI achieves background limited performance, and its noise equivalent line flux sensitivity is currently 1.6 x 10^-20 W cm^-2 pixel^-1 per spectral resolution element for a 17-sec on-source integration on the IRTF. Future upgrade plans for MIRFI are also described.

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Journal keyword(s): Astronomical Instrumentation

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