Astrophysical: Instrumentation

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    The MAGIC telescope for gamma-ray astronomy above 30 GeV
    The MAGIC telescope, presently at its commissioning phase, will become fully operative by the end of 2003. Placed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM...
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    The Osiris Tunable Imager and Spectrograph: a 2004 Status Report
    OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day one instrument for the GTC and the only Spanish Day One...
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    The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) on the Herschel Space Observatory
    The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) is one of the three science instruments on ESA's far infrared and submillimetre observatory. It employs...
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    The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on Solar Orbiter
    Aims: This paper describes the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on the Solar Orbiter mission (SO/PHI), the first magnetograph and helioseismology instrument...
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    The Preparation of the GTC for the Scientific Operation of CanariCam
    CanariCam is a mid-IR camera and spectrograph with coronographic and polarimetric capabilities, built by the University of Florida to operate at the GTC...
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    The Rotation of the Deep Solar Layers
    From the analysis of low-order GOLF+MDI sectoral modes (l
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    The Scientific capabilities of Elmer
    Elmer is a visible imager-spectrograph currently scheduled to be in operation at the GTC on Day One. The instrument will allow imaging over a 4.2 arcminute...
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    The SDSS-III APOGEE Radial Velocity Survey of M Dwarfs. I. Description of the Survey and Science Goals
    We are carrying out a large ancillary program with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS-III, using the fiber-fed multi-object near-infrared APOGEE spectrograph...
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    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey extended point spread functions
    A robust and extended characterization of the point spread function (PSF) is crucial to extract the photometric information produced by deep imaging surveys...