First Light with RATIR: An Automated 6-band Optical/NIR Imaging Camera

Authors :: Juan Manuel Nuñez
Ori D. Fox
M. Herlinda Pedrayes
Joel Herrera
Gennadiy N. Lotkin
Alan M. Watson
Urania Ceseña
E. Colorado
D. Rapchun
J. Xavier Prochaska
Eduardo Lopez
F. Murillo
J. Jesús González
Nathaniel R. Butler
Rebecca A. Bernstein
Gerardo Sierra
Harvey Moseley
Josh Bloom
Luis Carlos Álvarez
Francisco Lazo
Leroy Sparr
Esteban Luna
Frederick D. Robinson
Neil Gehrels
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Benjamin Martinez
Carlos San Roman
Alexander Kutyrev
Alejandro Farah
G. Guisa
A. Córdova
José A. de Diego
J. Murillo
José Ochoa
F. Quirós
C. R. Klein
Benjamín García
Mathew V. Samuel
Michael G. Richer
William H. Lee
L. Georgiev
David C. Clark
Source :: SPIE Proceedings.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: SPIE, 2012.
Abstract: The Reionization and Transients InfraRed camera (RATIR) is a simultaneous optical/NIR multi-band imaging camera which is 100% time-dedicated to the followup of Gamma-ray Bursts. The camera is mounted on the 1.5-meter Johnson telescope of the Mexican Observatorio Astron

Subjects :: Physics
Infrared
business.industry
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Near-infrared spectroscopy
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
First light
law.invention
Telescope
Astron
Optics
law
Computer Science::Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Gamma-ray burst
business
Reionization

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