Science Commissioning of NIHTS: The Near-infrared High Throughput Spectrograph on the Lowell Discovery Telescope
@article{Gustafsson2021ScienceCO, title={Science Commissioning of NIHTS: The Near-infrared High Throughput Spectrograph on the Lowell Discovery Telescope}, author={Annika Gustafsson and Nicholas A. Moskovitz and Michael C. Cushing and Thomas A. Bida and Edward Wood Dunham and H. Roe}, journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific}, year={2021}, volume={133} }
The Near-Infrared High Throughput Spectrograph (NIHTS) is in operation on the 4.3 m Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) in Happy Jack, AZ. NIHTS is a low-resolution spectrograph (R ∼ 200) that operates from 0.86 to 2.45 microns. NIHTS is fed by a custom dichroic mirror which reflects near-infrared wavelengths to the spectrograph and transmits the visible to enable simultaneous imaging with the Large Monolithic Imager (LMI), an independent visible wavelength camera. The combination of premier…
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