BASIS: bayfordbury single-object integral field spectrograph

Samuel Richards; William Martin; David Campbell; Hugh Jones; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Jon Lawrence; Elias Brinks; Julia J. Bryant; Lisa Fogarty; Mark Gallaway; Michael Goodwin; Sergio Leon-Saval; Marc Sarzi; Daniel J. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.925378

BASIS: bayfordbury single-object integral field spectrograph

Samuel Richards^*, William Martin, David Campbell, Hugh Jones, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Elias Brinks, Julia J. Bryant, Lisa Fogarty, Mark Gallaway, Michael Goodwin, Sergio Leon-Saval, Marc Sarzi, Daniel J. Smith

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We present an inexpensive (<US$500) and easily replicable integral field unit for use on small aperture telescopes. Based on a commercial small spectrograph (SBIG Self-Guiding Spectrograph) and a 37 optical fibre bundle integral field unit with each fibre having 50μm cores and a pitch of 125μm. It has an overall field-of-view of 40 arc seconds (2.6arcsec/core), a resolution of 9Å from 3995Å to 7170Å and an average system efficiency of 9%, yielding a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 for a 20min exposure of a 13mag/arcsec² source. Still in commissioning, we present first light observations of Vega and M57.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Editors	Ian S. McLean, Suzanne K. Ramsay, Hideki Takami
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9780819491473
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925378
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	8446
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	1/07/12 → 6/07/12

Keywords

Amateur astronomy
Astronomical instrumentation
Integral field unit
Optical fibre
Teaching

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Richards, S., Martin, W., Campbell, D., Jones, H., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Lawrence, J., Brinks, E., Bryant, J. J., Fogarty, L., Gallaway, M., Goodwin, M., Leon-Saval, S., Sarzi, M., & Smith, D. J. (2012). BASIS: bayfordbury single-object integral field spectrograph. In I. S. McLean, S. K. Ramsay, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV (pp. 1-9). Article 84462B (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 8446). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925378

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BASIS: bayfordbury single-object integral field spectrograph. / Richards, Samuel; Martin, William; Campbell, David et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. ed. / Ian S. McLean; Suzanne K. Ramsay; Hideki Takami. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2012. p. 1-9 84462B (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 8446).

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