Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T05:45:02.308Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

IRIS: What can it do tor you?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

David Allen*
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296 Epping, NSW 2121

Abstract

Described here is the new infrared camera/spectrograph, IRIS, that was brought into operation at the Anglo-Australian Telescope early in 1991. A number of scientific discoveries are used to demonstrate the capabilities of the instrument.

Type
Invited
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Allen, D. A., 1981, Proc. Astron. Soc. Aust., 4, 149.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bailey, J. A., Barton, J. R., Conroy, P., Davies, H., Hillier, D. J., Hyland, A. R., Jones, T. J., Shortridge, K. and Whittard, D., 1988. Pubi. Astron. Soc. Pacif., 100, 1178.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barton, J. R. and Alien, D. A., 1980, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacif., 92, 368.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barton, J. R., Allen, D. A. and Gillingham, P. R., 1992, in Proc. lOth Symp. Photoelectronic Image Devices, Morgan, B. L. (ed), Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser., 121, 147.Google Scholar
Bland-Hawthorn, J., Wilson, A. S. and Tully, R. B., 1991, Astrophys. J., 371, L19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chapman, R. C, Beard, S. M., Mountain, C. M., Pettie, D. G., Pickup, D. A. and Wade, R., 1991, Proc. SPIE, 1235, 34.Google Scholar
Fosbury, R. A. E. and Wall, J. V., 1979 Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 189, 79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frogel, J. A., Gregory, B., Kawara, K., Laney, D., Phillips, M. M., Terndrup, D., Vrba, F. J. and Whitford, A. E., 1987, Astrophys. J., 315, L129.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gillingham, P. R. and Lankshear, A., 1991, Proc. SPIE, 1235, 9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lynch, D. K., Rudy, R. J., Rossano, G. S., Erwin, P. and Puetter, R.C., 1989, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc., 21, 1216.Google Scholar
Rode, J. P., Blackwell, J. D., Blessinger, M. A. and Vural, K., 1987, Infrared Astronomy with Arrays, Wynn-Williams, C.G., Becklin, E.E. and Good, L. (eds), University of Hawaii, p. 13.Google Scholar
Storey, J. W. V., 1984, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 206, 521.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, G. S., Joseph, R. D. and Meikle, W. P. S., 1984, Nature, 309, 430.CrossRefGoogle Scholar