ULTRASPEC on the NTT
Following two runs on the ESO 3.6m in 2006 and 2008, ULTRASPEC was
moved to the 3.5m NTT at La Silla, since the EFOSC2 spectrograph on
which we mounted ULTRASPEC was moved by ESO to this new telescope. The
third ULTRASPEC run, composed of 22 nights of science time, took place
during the period 2009 June 9-30. As with the previous two ULTRASPEC
runs on EFOSC2, this run was primarily spectroscopic, although it was
also possible to perform imaging observations by removing the grisms
and slits. The links below provide some additional information about
operating ULTRASPEC on the NTT as opposed to the ESO 3.6m.
Contents
- ULTRASPEC wavelength range, resolution and pixel scale
- ULTRASPEC imaging ETC
- ULTRASPEC spectroscopy ETC (unfinished)
- Photos of ULTRASPEC on the NTT
- Some example science publications based on ULTRASPEC+ESO3.6m and ULTRASPEC+NTT data:
- Savoury et al., 2011, MNRAS, 415, 2025: Cataclysmic variables below the period gap: mass determinations of 14 eclipsing systems
- De Cia et al., 2011, MNRAS, 412, 2229: Probing gamma-ray burst environments with time variability: ULTRASPEC fast imaging of GRB 080210
- Parsons et al., 2010, MNRAS, 407, 2362: Orbital period variations in eclipsing post-common-envelope binaries
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