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OCTOCAM – a New Workhorse Instrument for Transient Follow-up at Gemini South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2019

C. C. Thöne  and
A. de Ugarte Postigo
C. C. Thöne
Affiliation:
IAA – CSIC, Granada, Spain email: [email protected]
A. de Ugarte Postigo
Affiliation:
Dark Cosmology Center, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Abstract

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Octocam is an 8-channel VIS and NIR imager and spectrograph to be installed at Gemini South in 2022. It provides simultaneous imaging in g’,r’,i’,z,Y,J,H,KS bands or simultaneous spectroscopy at a resolution of ∼4000, together with high time-resolution options. Additional capabilities such as spectropolarimetry or an Integral Field Unit could be added as an upgrade later. These properties makes it very well suited as a follow-up instrument for transient searches. It is planned as a dedicated follow-up instrument for LSST, and will start operations at the same time as the LSST main survey. Octocam was conceived as a consortium consisting of South-West Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, IAA-CSIC in Granada, FRACTAL SLNE in Madrid, and George Washington University.

Keywords

Instrumentation: spectrographsinstrumentation: photometersstars: variables
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S339: Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , November 2017 , pp. 181 - 184
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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