UKIRT INSTRUMENTS
| UKIRT INSTRUMENTS |
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This section contains information on UKIRT's suite of common user
instruments; see the bottom of the page for a brief summary. Visiting
instruments are also sometimes available to the community on a
collaborative basis. When preparing telescope proposals please check
the UKIRT instrument availability
pages for details pertaining to the upcoming semester,
and the page describing how to apply for
telescope time. Recent publications which describe UKIRT
instrumentation and performance are available here.
The graph below shows a plot of wavelength range against spectral
resolution for the UKIRT cassegrain instruments. Imagers are plotted in
blue, spectrometers in red. WFCAM covers essentially the same area as
UFTI.
Notes:
| WFCAM: |
Wide field 0.8-2.5 micron camera covering a 0.75
square degree tile in 4 pointings. |
| UIST: |
1-5um imaging and long-slit grism spectroscopy
with R~1500-3500. Also integral-field spectroscopy and imaging- and
spectro-polarimetry. |
| UFTI: |
1-2.5um camera with 1024x1024 pixels; pixel scale 0.09".
Imaging polarimetry and K-band 400 km/s FP also available. |
| CGS4: |
1-5um long-slit grating spectrometer with R ~
400-40,000. |
| IRPOL: |
UKIRT's polarimetry module for use with all instruments
except Michelle, which has its own waveplates. |
| Michelle:
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10-20um imaging and long-slit grating
spectroscopy. Echelle spectroscopy and imaging/spectro-polarimetry also
available. Instrument currently at Gemini |
| Visiting Instruments: |
Links to TRISPEC and other visitor instruments. No
visitor instruments are scheduled for the forthcoming semester. |
N.B. To obtain a printable version of an instrument
web page - or indeed of any UKIRT page - click on the "Show document
only" link located at the top of the lilac side-bar.
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