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Magellan technical updates, Pasadena April 2006 – September 2006

Magellan technical updates, Pasadena April 2006 – September 2006. Instrument Development. Meetings with instrument teams catch interface problems Telescope Guiders Computing Logistics Observatory learns about design, construction, and maintenance requirements. Instrument Development.

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Magellan technical updates, Pasadena April 2006 – September 2006

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  1. Magellan technical updates, PasadenaApril 2006 – September 2006

  2. Instrument Development • Meetings with instrument teams catch interface problems • Telescope • Guiders • Computing • Logistics • Observatory learns about design, construction, and maintenance requirements

  3. Instrument Development • PISCO (Parallel Imager for Southern Cosmology Obsv’ns) • Chris Stubbs, Tony Stark, Will High • In design • PFS (Planet Finding Spectrograph) • Paul Butler, Steve Shectman, Jeff Crane • Halfway thorough construction

  4. Instrument Development • MagE (Magellan Echellette) • Scott Burles, Ian Thompson, Steve Shectman • Early construction • FIRE (Folded port Infrared Echellette) • Rob Simcoe, Adam Burgasser • PDR soon

  5. Instrument Development • FourStar (4K IR imager) • Eric Persson, David Murphy, JHU/IDG • CDR soon • Mosaic2 (second CCD dewar for IMACS) • Alan Dressler, Ian Thompson, Pat McCarthy, Alan Uomoto • CCDs ordered; construction starting soon

  6. Instrument Development • WFC (Wide Field Corrector for f/5) • Andy Szentgyorgyi • Construction almost finished

  7. Instrument deployments • MMTF (Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter) • Sylvain Veilleux, Ben Weiner, Alan Dressler, OCIW engineering • Successful installation and testing • Further engineering this semester • http://www.astro.umd.edu/~bjw/mmtf/

  8. MMTF N4945 Hα, 20Å, 15 min exp

  9. Instrument deployments • POETS (Portable Occultation Eclipse and Transit System) • Jim Elliot, Alycia Weinberger, Mercedes López-Morales, David Osip • Successful speckle tests LLL mode (Weinberger) • Successful photometric transit observations (López-Morales )

  10. F/5 secondary mirror • Mirror is being integrated onto the polishing cell at SOML • Approximate finish date is mid-2007 • Expect 2007B engineering on Clay (baffles, testing)

  11. Guider upgrades • Charlie Hull, Jose Soto • New lead screws for finer position control • Modifications to improve reliability • New motion actuator designs • Better cable routing and strain relief • Testing this year

  12. Bibliography • 186 refereed publications total

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