WYFFOS upgrades
As part of the WYFFOS Upgrade project, a new camera is to be designed.
With the new camera the WYFFOS spectrograph will offer enhanced capability to
do multi-object and integral-field spectroscopical surveys on the WHT.
The WYFFOS Long Camera: more fibers
The WYFFOS Long Camera is primarily designed to sample more fibers
than currently possible with the 1kx1k TEK detector. Our aim is that
the camera will image up to 500 fibers on a mosaic of two 4kx2k chips
with 15 micron pixels.
This will enhance the possibility of doing optical multi-object and
integral-field spectroscopy at the prime and Nasmyth foci of the WHT.
The WYFFOS Long Camera: higher spectral resolution
In combination with the AF2 Small Fiber module (90 micron, 1.6 arcsec
fibers) at prime focus, the WYFFOS Long Camera will give a significant increase in
spectral resolution: a factor of about 1.7.
For the 100 micron, 0.45 arcsec fibers of INTEGRAL at Nasmyth, the spectral resolution
might increase as much as a factor of 3.5.
We are currently working on it!
| Gordon Talbot (rgt) | Project Manager | |
| John Telting (jht) | Project Scientist | |
| Kevin Dee (kmd) | Mechanical | |
| Paul Jolley (jolley) | Mechanical | |
| Maarten Blanken (mfb) | Optics | |
| Charles Benneker (benneker) | Electronics | |
The optical design for the camera has been contracted out to Richard Bingham (UCL).
Expected date of finalization of conceptual optical/mechanical study: end 2000.
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Last updated Sep 2000
John Telting (instrument specialist)
jht@ing.iac.es
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