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This page gives an overview of the instrumentation available on the WHT and INT. If you need more information about a given instrument, click on the instrument name, or email one of the listed instrument specialists. Notes (§) about specific instruments and procedures can be found at the bottom of the page.

Information about applying for telescope time can be found on a separate page.



Spectroscopy
Instrument/Contacts Wavelength
Range (Å)		 Resolution, or
Dispersion (Å/pixel) 		Slit Length Detector Comments
4.2-m William Herschel Telescope
Manager: Benn
ISIS
Specialist: Hrudkova / Fariña
3000-10000Å 0.26-1.81 (Red+)
0.11-1.63 (EEV12)		 4' Red: Red+
Blue: EEV12
Red or Blue:
Qucam3, Qucam2 		Long-slit spectroscopy;
spectro and imaging polarimetry;
fast spectroscopy
LIRIS (§3)
Specialist: Karjalainen / Fariña
9000-24000Å R=1000-3000 4.2' HgCdTe(1024x1024) Long-slit and multi-object spectroscopy;
spectro and imaging polarimetry
ACAM (§4)
Specialist: Benn / Domínguez  
3500-9400Å R~400 6' AUXCAM Long-slit spectroscopy
AF2/WYFFOS (§1)
Specialist: Domínguez / Fariña
3500-10000Å R=100-3000 (ref.)
R=9500 (ech.)		 1.6" fibres Red+4 (or 2EEV) Up to 150 objects
NAOMI/OASIS
Specialist: Skillen / Benn
4000-10000 Å 1000 < R < 4000 2.7x3.7" to 7.4x10.3"
field imaged onto
1100 lenslets		 MIT/LL (2048x4096) IFS, available with and without AO
2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope
Manager: Vaduvescu
IDS
Specialist: Fariña / Domínguez
3000-10000Å 700 < R < 10000 3.3' EEV10
Red+2 		Long-slit spectroscopy
with 235mm camera


Imaging
Instrument/Contacts Detector Filters Scale ("/pixel) Field-of-View
4.2-m William Herschel Telescope
Manager: Benn
Prime Focus Camera
Specialist: Vaduvescu / Benn
Red+4 (or 2EEV) See database 0.24 18' x 18'
(Red+4)
ACAM (§4)
Specialist: Benn / Domínguez  
AUXCAM Most ING filters, see database 0.25 8'.3
NAOMI/INGRID
Specialist: Skillen / Benn
HgCdTe(1024x1024) ZJHKK_s
and 10 narrow-band		 0.04 42"
NAOMI/INGRID/OSCA
Specialist: Skillen / Benn
HgCdTe(1024x1024) ZJHKK_s
and 10 narrow-band		 0.04 27"
LIRIS
Specialist: Karjalainen / Fariña
HgCdTe(1024x1024) ZJHK_s
and 8 narrow-band		 0.25 4'.27
2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope
Manager: Vaduvescu
Wide Field Camera (§5)
Specialist: Vaduvescu / Hrudková
4 x 4k x 2k EEV See database 0.33 33'.8 x 33'.8


Visitor Instruments (§2)
InstrumentDescription Institute Contact
4.2-m William Herschel Telescope
Manager: Benn
GHaFaS Fabry-Perot Hα imager IAC John Beckman
INTEGRAL Fibre-bundle integral-field spectrograph IAC Evencio Mediavilla
PN.S Slitless counter-dispersed spectrograph Kapteyn Magda Arnaboldi
SAURON Lenslet-array integral field spectrograph Lyon/Leiden/Durham SAURON Team
Ultracam Ultrafast, 3-colour imager Sheffield Vik Dhillon
Tom Marsh


§ Notes
  1. Improvements to the target-acquisition procedure and to the mapping of field distortion at WHT prime focus have improved the acquisition accuracy to better than 0.4 arcsec for 90% of fibres out to 20 arcmin from the center of the field of view (beyond this radius, there is significant vignetting). For reference, in seeing of 0.5 - 1.5 arcsec, a fibre-centring error of 0.4 arcsec leads to ~ 10% loss of light from a point source, relative to that from a well-centred fibre. Teams applying to use AF2 in 2014B are encouraged to check the latest AF2 news.
  2. 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.
  3. LIRIS slit-mask preparation and manufacture takes approximately eleven weeks; PIs awarded time in multi-slit mode are strongly encouraged to initiate the design of slit masks at the earliest opportunity. Information about slit-mask design and timelines are given here; please email queries to the LIRIS MOS specialist Cecilia Fariña (cf@ing.iac.es).
  4. Observations can be made with ACAM at any time, except when an instrument is mounted at WHT prime focus.
  5. The INT WFC is offered at rotator angle 180 degrees only. When there is compelling scientific justification, other rotator angles (0, 90 or 270-degrees) can be offered for the duration of the run; changes to the rotator angle within a run are not permitted.
  6. Specifications and technical details of all CCDs current at the ING are given on the ING detectors technical page.
  7. Full details of all ING filters are given in the ING filters page.
  8. SIGNAL can be used to calculate exposure times for any telescope/instrument/detector combination.


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Last modified: 21 February 2014