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ARCETRI INFRARED GROUP

An Infrared Instrumental Group is active at Arcetri Observatory. Activities include the development and construction of infrared instrumentation, the scientific characterization of new instrumentation, and the developing of related software.


  Activities  
The activities of the group started at the end of 70's with the building of the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope (). The group has also developed a large amount of and procedures in order to define all the relevant parameters of the systems.
The list of the instruments partially or totally developed by our group includes:
  • the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope ().
  • GoSpec, a seven elements infrared spectrometer (no more operational).
  • ArNICa the infrared camera for TIRGO.
  • LonGSp the infrared spectrometer for TIRGO.
  • Irlab and Tirgo Data Archive (not an instrument but related to them!).
  • , the NIR camera/spectrometer for the Telescopio Nazionale .
  • Amber-SPG, the beam combining spectrometer part for Amber, the VLTI focal-plane imaging/spectrometer.
  • Fasti, the innovative data acquisition design.
  • Giano, the high/low resolution infrared spectrometer proposed for the TNG. See also the local Labir4Giano pages.
  • Nahual. the high resolution infrared spectrometer for the GTC. See also the official Nahual pages.
In addition to the development of the above instruments, we also carried some observations in collaboration with the science groups of Arcetry Observatory. In this context, we modified ARNICA in order to mount it on several telescopes, including the William Herschel Telescope, the , the Vatt Observatory, the Mount Graham International Observatory, and the . Observations outside TIRGO started in 1993 with few technical problems and important astronomical results.




Last Modified:
28/Oct/2008


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