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SPARTAN Near-IR Camera

System Overview

The Spartan Infrared Camera is a high spatial resolution near-IR imager. Spartan has a focal plane consisting of four "Hawaii-II" 2048x2048 pixel HgCdTe detectors. NOTE - the detectors don't have all quadrants fully functional - see the "Cookbook" for details. Although two different scales were provided, only one is now supported: the f/12 channel offers an FOV of 5.04 x 5.04 arcmin at 0.066 arcsec/pixel; the scale was chosen to resolve the diffraction-limited core of tip-tilt-corrected images in the H, and K bands. The f/21 channel, which has been disabled, had an FOV of 3.05 x 3.05 arcmin with a scale of 0.040 arcsec/pixel (Loh et al., 2012, PASP, 124, 343). Spartan has two filter wheels which together can hold a total of 29, 50mm diameter filters of thickness up to 15mm. Broadband Y, J, H and K (based on the MKO-NIR prescription) and 9 narrow-band filters are available.
For more information, contact the SPARTAN support staff.