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The Monash Spectrograph Simulation Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

S. C. Marsden  and
D. W. Coates
S. C. Marsden
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia
D. W. Coates*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

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The Monash University Physics Department is constructing a spectrograph, to be attached to a 0·46-m Cassegrainian telescope. To help future users of the spectrograph determine the operational capabilities of the spectrograph a PC-based software package was created. This program allows the user to simulate the response of the spectrograph to various stellar types under differing observational constraints. We have estimated the precision of measurements of stellar radial velocities with the spectrograph. The estimates are reasonable but are yet to be compared with real data.

Keywords

instrumentation: spectrographs
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , 1997 , pp. 274 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1997

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