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Instruments by Type

Instruments at NOAO-South by instrument type

Optical Imagers

Telescope	Instrument	FOV (armin)	Scale (asec/pix)	Detector	Wavelegth range (micron) or filters
Blanco	MOSAIC II	36x36	0.27	8x 2048X4096 SITe CCDs	0.34-1.00
SOAR	SOI	5.25x5.25	0.077	E2V CCD mini-mosaic 2x 4096x2048	0.31-1.05
SOAR	Goodman HTS	7.2 diameter	0.15	Fairchild CCD 4096x4096	0.36-0.92
1.3-m	ANDICAM	2.4x2.4	0.274 (Binning 2x2)	Fairchild 447 2048x2048 CCD	BVRI
Yale 1.0-m	Y4K CAM	20.0x20.0	0.289	STA 4064x4064 CCD	BVRcIc SDSS ugriz U+CuSO4
0.9-m	CFCCD	13.6x13.6	0.401	SITe 2048x2048 CCD	0.31-1.00

IR Imagers

Telescope	Instrument	FOV (armin)	Scale (asec/pix)	Detector	Wavelegth range (micron) or filters
Blanco	NEWFIRM	28	0.4	4x 2Kx2K IR array	1.0-2.3
Blanco	ISPI	10.25X10.25	0.3	HAWAII-2 2048X2048	1.0-2.4
SOAR	Spartan		0.043 0.073	HAWAII-2 HgCdTe mosaic 4x 2048X2048	1.0-2.2
SOAR	OSIRIS	3.2X3.2 1.3X1.3	0.321 0.139	NICMOS4 HgCdTe 1024x1024	1.0-2.5
1.3-m	ANDICAM	6.0x6.0	0.369 (Binning2x2)	Rockwell 1024x1024 HgCdTe "Hawaii" array	YJHK

Optical Spectrographs

Telescope	Instrument	FOV	Resolving Power	Detector	Wavelength range (micron)
Blanco	4-m R-C	single slit 5.4 arcmin long slit	<10,000	Loral 3K CCD (*)	0.32-0-90
Blanco	Hydra	40 arcmin 140 fibers	<50,000	SITe 4Kx2K (*)	0.32-0.90
SOAR	Goodman HTS	3.0x5.0 arcmin	VPH gratings 1,400-6,000	Fairchild CCD 4096x4096	0.36-0.92
SOAR	SIFS	IFU 7.8X1.5@0.3" 3.9X7.5@0.15"	VPH gratings 1,000-30,000	CCD mini-mosaic 2x4096x4096	0.32-0.85
1.5-m	1.5-m R-C	single slit 1.5arcmin	<5,000	Loral1K	0.32-0.9
1.5-m	1.5-m Echelle	2.7arcsec diameter (one star)	<40,000	2k SITe CCD	0.40-0.73

(*) These detectors are going to be changed.

IR Spectrograph

Telescope	Instrument	FOV (arcmin)	Resolving Power	Detector	Wavelegth range (micron)
SOAR	OSIRIS	175x0.98 66x0.41 24x0.98	1,200-3,000 1,400 X-disp	HgCdTe 1024x1024	1.0-2.2 (J,H,K)

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