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General Description

SOFI is the infrared spectrograph and imaging camera on the NTT. The optical layout can be viewed in Figures 1 and 2. SOFI offers the following observing modes.
 
imaging with plate scales of 0.144, 0.276 and 0.292 arc-seconds/pixel using broad and narrow band filters in the wavelength range 0.9 to 2.5 microns. Click here to check the image quality in the different configurations.
low resolution (R=600), 0.93-2.54 micron spectroscopy with fixed width slits of 0.6, 1 and 2 arc seconds.
medium resolution (R=1500) spectroscopy with fixed width slits.
0.9-2.5 micron imaging polarimetry

 


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Last Update: August 6, 2001 (Leo Vanzi)
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