Friday, 18th April at 2.00pm at the JAC
Loic Albert
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
"CFHT's wide field infrared imager WIRCam"
ABSTRACT:
CFHT's wide field infrared imager, WIRCam, is in its sixth semester of
operation. This instrument, exclusively operated in queue mode by the
staff at CFHT, is equipped with a mosaic of four HAWAII-2RG detectors and
makes use of on-chip guiding. With a somewhat smaller field of view
(21'x21') than WFCAM but finer pixel scale (0.3"/pixel) and higher
throughput (~50%), WIRCam is as efficient in pointed target observations
as it is in survey operations. The data is processed by the IDL
Intrepretor of the Wircam Images (`I`iwi). It has to compensate for our
three different flavors of crosstalk effects. After presenting the
instrument, its performances and the pipeline, I will describe some of
the science that has been done with WIRCam and present the large program
proposals that could follow when the CFHT Legacy Survey ends later this
year.
Relevant web site:
WIRCam homepage
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