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Instrumentation for Ground-Based Optical Astronomy

Present and Future The Ninth Santa Cruz Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics, July 13–July 24, 1987, Lick Observatory

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Lloyd B. Robinson

    1. Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

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Part of the book series: Santa Cruz Summer Workshops in Astronomy and Astrophysics (SANTA CRUZ)

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Table of contents (80 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
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  2. High Resolution Spectrographs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to the Session on High Resolution Spectrographs

      • Steven S. Vogt, Daniel J. Schroeder
      Pages 3-5

    3. Aspects of the Optical Design of the AAT and WHT Echelle Spectrographs

      • Francisco Diego
      Pages 6-20

    4. Overall Philosophy of the Echelle Spectrographs for the Anglo Australian Telescope and William Herschel Telescope

      • David D. Walker
      Pages 21-32

    5. The Lick Observatory Hamilton Echelle Spectrometer

      • Steven S. Vogt
      Pages 33-38

    6. Optical Design of the ARC Echelle Spectrometer

      • Daniel J. Schroeder
      Pages 39-46

    7. A Coudé Echelle Spectrograph with a Large Mosaic Grating but with Small Corrector Lenses

      • E. Harvey Richardson, Christopher L. Morbey
      Pages 47-51

    8. A New High-Resolution CCD Spectrometer for the McDonald Observatory 2.7-Meter Telescope

      • Phillip J. MacQueen, Robert G. Tull
      Pages 52-67

    9. HIRES: A High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for the Keck 10-Meter Telescope

      • Steven S. Vogt, G. Donald Penrod
      Pages 68-103

    10. A Comparison of Holographic and Echelle Gratings in Astronomical Spectrometry

      • Robert G. Tull
      Pages 104-117

    11. What’s New in Gratings?

      • Erwin G. Loewen
      Pages 118-123

    12. Fabry-Perot Interferometers

      • Paul Atherton
      Pages 124-133

    13. An Ultra-High Resolution Spectrograph in a Hurry

      • Peter Gillingham
      Pages 134-149

  3. Low Resolution, Faint Object Spectrographs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Overview of Faint Object Spectrographs

      • J. S. Miller
      Pages 153-156

    3. A CCD Spectropolarimeter for the Lick Observatory 3-Meter Telescope

      • J. S. Miller, L. B. Robinson, R. W. Goodrich
      Pages 157-171

    4. Experience with the Palomar Double Spectrograph

      • J. B. Oke
      Pages 172-176

    5. Optical Design of Image Stabilizer Systems and Associated Off-Axis Guiders

      • E. Harvey Richardson, Christopher L. Morbey
      Pages 177-182

    6. An Immersion Grating for an Astronomical Spectrograph

      • Hans Dekker
      Pages 183-188
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About this book

Historically, the discovery of tools, or evidence that tools have been used, has been taken as proof of human activity; certainly the invention and spread of new tools has been a critical marker of human progress and has increased our ability to observe, measure, and understand the physical world. In astronomy the tools are telescopes and the optical and electronic instruments that support them. The use of the telescope by Galileo marked the beginning of a new and productive way to study and understand the universe in which we live. The effects of this new tool on what we can see, and how we see ourselves, are well known. However, after almost four centuries of developing ever more sensitive and subtle instruments as tools for astronomy, it might have been expected that only a few minor improvements would remain to be made, or that possibly the law of diminishing returns would have taken effect. On the contrary, the new instruments and ideas for new instruments described in this book make it clear that the rate of progress has not diminished, and that this subject is still as exciting and productive as ever. Instrumentation for Ground-Based Optical Astronomy was chosen as the theme for the Ninth Santa Cruz Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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  • Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

    Lloyd B. Robinson

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