MagE Specs
Magellan Echellette Spectrograph
Telescope:
- Clay folded port 2
- Focal ratio: f/11
Wavelength Range:
- 3100 Å to 1 micron
Resolving Power:
- R~4100 for a 1 arcsec slit
Scale:
- Effective focal ratio: f/1.4
- 0.30 arcsec/pixel
Available Slit Sizes:
- 0.5, 0.7, 0.85, 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 5.0 arcsec wide by 10 arcsec long
Detector:
- E2V 42-20 CCD (1024 x 2048 x 13.5 micron pixels)
Gain and Readout Noise:
| Read speed | Read time (s) | Gain (e-/DN) | RMS noise (e-) |
|
Slow |
33 |
1.02 |
2.9 |
|
Fast |
21 |
0.82 |
3.1 |
|
Turbo |
14 |
1.53 |
4.2 |
Contacts:
- Steve Shectman (obs.carnegiescience.edu)
- Ian Thompson (obs.carnegiescience.edu)
