GHaFaS: Galaxy Halpha Fabry-Perot System

First light (at ING): 6 July 2007.

Designed and built by: Université de Montréal, with partners at the Observatoire de Marseille and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Description: It is a new generation Fabry-Perot interferometer, whose chief and powerful advantage over traditional systems which have been used on telescopes is the high sensitivity photon counting detector.

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Time allocations:
Nights scheduled since semester 2007B

Instrument information: http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/ghafas/Site/Bienvenue_-_Bienvenido_-_Welcome.html

More:

• First Light for the Galaxy H-alpha Fabry-Perot System (GHaFaS).
• C. Carignan, O. Hernandez, J. E. Beckman, K. Fathi, 2007, "GHaFaS: Galaxy Halpha Fabry-Perot Spectrometer for the WHT", arXiv:0705.4093v1 [astro-ph].