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EMMI Spectroscopy Characteristics

EMMI supports spectroscopy with either grisms or gratings, using two different light paths.

Grisms are available in the red arm only and are mounted in the RILD mode: they provide low resolution spectroscopy and allow for either long-slit observation or MOS.

Gratings provide higher resolution but can only be used with a long slit. Separate gratings are mounted in the blue arm (BLMD) and in the red arm (REMD).

An echelle grating can be mounted in the red arm (REMD-HighRes), using one of the grisms as cross disperser.

The following table gives an overview of the characteristics of EMMI spectroscopy. The second table gives the characteristics of the MOS mode.

Spectroscopic modes


Observation type	wavelength	Mode	resolving power	field of view
Low-dispersion long-slit spectroscopy	>400nm	EMMI red	R theta=280-1670	slit length 8 arcmin, width 0.5-10 arcsec

Low-dispersion slitless spectroscopy	> 400nm	EMMI red	R theta=280-1670	9.15 times 8.6 arcmin

Low-dispersion multi-object spectroscopy (a)	> 400nm	EMMI red	R theta=280-1670	5 times 8.6 arcmin

Medium-dispersion long-slit spectroscopy	< 500nm	EMMI blue	R theta=840-9000	slit < 6 arcmin
	> 400nm	EMMI red	R theta=600-50000
		Dichroic (b)	blue+red

echelle spectroscopy	> 400nm	EMMI red	R theta=7700-70000	inter-order spacing

(a) no. of slits of order 25
(b)combined BLMD (lambda<410nm) and REMD (lambda>490nm)

MOS capabilities


Wavelength range	380-1000nm
Accessible field	5 times 8 arcmin
Aperture shape	Slit
Slit width	0.8, 1.0, 1.34, or 1.8 arcsec
Slit length	4 or 8 arcsec per slitlet
No. objects per field	10-30 (if one spectrum per CCD row)
Punching machine	On-line (inside EMMI)

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Last Update: 26 Sep. 2002 (cf)