Documentation page

We have made accessible here the documentations for most of the projects carried out by Arcetri Infrared Group.

• A General Description of the Nics Camera
• The original Project of the Nics Camera (8/1997).
• Some Optical drawings
• Scientific Array Characterization graphs: 1, 2, 3.
• Descrizione generale dell'elettronica di controllo e presa dati
• Il software per la camera infrarossa Nics
• Xnir User Manual
• The DSP 56000 control program
• The Transnix-Xnics protocol Report, July 2000
• XNICS User's Guide.
• XNICS Programmer's Guide.
• XNICS Software Maintenance Guide.
• Nics' motor controller User Guide and Software Guide (from Parker Hannifin Corporation site).
• Nics' Lantronics ETS8P ethernet intarface Installation Guide and Reference Guide (from Lantronics Corporation site).

• Report on Grism for Arnica.
• Arnica performance at Tng.
• Arnica progress report: performance and technical results obtained in the last years at Tirgo, Not, and Vatt.
• First Light of Arnica at TNG.
• The general description (SPIE,1993)(560k)
• Arnica Optical systems.
• Characterization of the detector (Arcetri Technical Report N^ 2/94)(1594k)
• Broad - Band astronomical performances (Arcetri Technical Report N^ 3/94)(8952k)
• Data Acquisition and Reduction methods (Arcetri Technical Report N^ 4/94)(224k)
• Manual for Arnica and LongSp controlling program Xnir (Arcetri Technical Report N^7/96)(6608k)
• List and values of photometric standards for Arnica (40k, from Hunt, L.K. et al, Astron.J., 1998)
• Data format and storage (81k)
• Software changes of 8/94 (56k)
• To get the Arnica reduction package, please contact Leslie K. Hunt
• Arnica and Longsp data:
  • CDR handling (current system)
  • WORM handling (old system)

• "Results of the TIRGO calibration program: 1986-1987" L.K. Hunt, G.Calamai, and E. Oliva Arcetri Technical Report No. 5/87
• "Near-infrared photometry at the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope" L.K. Hunt Arcetri Technical Report No. 15/91
• "Manuale del nuovo sistema di controllo del Fotometro del TIRGO" C.Baffa, 1992, Arcetri Technical Report No. 8/92 Parti 1 e 2

Last Modified:
18/Jul/2007