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Spectral Classification Studies of Cepheids Using a Small Telescope with an Image Tube Spectrograph*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

M. F. McCarthy
M. F. McCarthy*
Affiliation:
Specola Vaticana, Castel Gandolfo, Vatican City State

Abstract

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Most of the results reported thus far of image tube spectroscopy as applied in astronomy have been concerned with emission features and have been the result of a combination of the largest available light gathering power of large telescopes with the improved sensitivity of image intensifiers. We consider here the application of image tube techniques to moderate sized telescopes; concretely, we describe the first program of spectral classification using absorption features as carried out with the image tube spectrograph of the Vatican Observatory attached to the Zeiss 60-cm reflector at Castel Gandolfo. Treanor (1970) has described the optical design, construction and the first tests of this instrument. The receiver is an RCA cascaded image tube loaned to the Vatican Observatory by the Carnegie Image Tube Committee.

Type
Part I: Classification of Slit Spectra
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 50: Spectral Classification and Multicolour Photometry , 1973 , pp. 30 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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