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ING Instrumentation Options 2004B

This page gives an overview of the instrumentation available on the WHT and INT. It is revised bi-annually to reflect the options offered in each semester. Full information on all the listed instruments is indexed in the Manuals Home Page, and information on older instruments can be found on-line in the Obsolete Instruments section of the Manuals Home Page. A summary of the time allocation process is available here.

NAOMI/INGRID and OSCA
Prospective NAOMI/INGRID applicants should read the most recent performance summary, and prospective applicants wishing to use the coronograph OSCA with NAOMI/INGRID should read its homepage.

NAOMI/OASIS
The Integral Field Spectrograph OASIS is offered with NAOMI on a shared risks basis. Prospective applicants should read the OASIS home page.

INGRID at the Cassegrain Focus
INGRID is not offered at the Cass focus in 2004B, but is offered at Nasmyth with the adaptive optics suite. It can also be used at Nasmyth with the AO loop switched off; in this case a guide star is not needed and throughput is reduced by ~0.5 mag compared to that at Cass.

WYFFOS Long Camera
The WYFFOS long camera will be commissioned in July 2004, and subject to successful commissioning will be offered with the 2xEEV mosaic detector in 2004B, on a shared risks basis.

LIRIS
The long-slit intermediate resolution infrared spectrograph, LIRIS, is offered in both imaging and long-slit spectroscopy modes on a shared risks basis.

New Visitor Instruments
PIs planning to submit a proposal based on a new (to ING) visitor instrument should follow the procedure for New Visitor Instruments.

Spectroscopy
Instrument/Contact Wavelength Range (Å) Dispersion (Å/pixel) Slit Length Detector Comments
4.2-m William Herschel Telescope




ISIS Spectrograph
Javier Licandro
3000-10000Å 0.19-2.90 (Tek4)
0.11-1.63 (EEV12)
4' Red: Marconi2
Blue: EEV12
Spectro- and/or
Imaging Polarimetry
LIRIS
Michael Schirmer
9000-24000Å R=1000-3000 4.2' HgCdTe(1024x1024) Long-Slit and
multi-object
AUTOFIB2/WYFFOS
Romano Corradi
3500-10000Å R=100-3000 (ref.)
R=7500 (ech.)
1.6" fibres 2EEV Up to 150 objects
NAOMI/OASIS
Chris Benn
4000-10000 Å 1000 < R < 4000 2.4" to 16" field imaged onto 1100 lenslets MIT/LL (2048x4096)  


Imaging
Instrument/Contact Detector Filters Scale ("/pixel) Field-of-View
4.2-m William Herschel Telescope        
Prime Focus Mosaic CCD camera
Javier Licandro
2EEV see database 0.24 16'.2 x 16'.2
Aux Port Imager (§)
Chris Benn
Tek2 UBVRI default 0.11 1'.8
NAOMI/INGRID
Chris Benn
HgCdTe(1024x1024) ZJHKK_s
and 10 narrow-band
0.04 42"
NAOMI/INGRID/OSCA
Sebastian Els
HgCdTe(1024x1024) ZJHKK_s
and 10 narrow-band
0.04 42"
LIRIS
Danny Lennon
HgCdTe(1024x1024) ZJHK_s
and 8 narrow-band
0.25 4'.27
2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope        
Wide Field Camera
Robert Greimel
4 of 4k x 2k EEV see database 0.33 33'.8 x 33'.8


The following instruments have visitor instrument status at the ING. Applicants wishing to submit proposals to use a visitor instrument should contact the relevant Instrument Contact in the first instance. Applicants wishing to submit a proposal based on a new (to ING) visitor instrument should follow these instructions.

Visitor Instruments
Instrument Institute Instrument Contact
4.2-m William Herschel Telescope    
Integral IAC Evencio Mediavilla
PN.S Kapteyn Nigel Douglas
SAURON Lyon/Leiden/Durham Tim de Zeeuw
S-CAM ESA Michael Perryman
Ultracam Sheffield Vik Dhillon

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Last Updated: 10 February 2004
Ian Skillen