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GREGOR: the New German Solar Telescope
H. Balthasar, O. von der Lühe, F. Kneer +17
GREGOR is a new open solar telescope with an aperture of 1.5m. It replaces the former 45-cm Gregory Coude telescope on the Canary island Tenerife. The optical concept is that of a…
Probing unexplored territories with MUSE: a second generation instrument for the VLT
R. Bacon, S. Bauer, P. Boehm +57
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph under preliminary design study. MUSE has a field of 1x1 arcmin**2 samp…
Prototype development of the Integral-Field unit for VIRUS
Andreas Kelz, Svend M. Bauer, Frank Grupp +6
VIRUS is a planned integral-field instrument for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). In order to achieve a large field-of-view and high grasp at reasonable costs, the approach is to…
PMAS: The Potsdam Multi Aperture Spectrophotometer. II. The Wide Integral Field Unit PPak
Andreas Kelz, Marc A. W. Verheijen, Martin M. Roth +6
PPak is a new fiber-based Integral Field Unit (IFU), developed at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, implemented as a module into the existing PMAS spectrograph. The purpose of P…
PMAS, the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer. I. Design, Manufacture, and Performance
M. M. Roth, A. Kelz, T. Fechner +12
We describe the design, manufacture, commissioning, and performance of PMAS, the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer. PMAS is a dedicated integral field spectrophotometer, opt…