3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
A Slit Mask Integral Field Unit for the Robert Stobie Spectrograph on the Southern African Large Telescope: I. Instrument Development
Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Matthew A. Bershady, Michael P. Smith +2
Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) has been added as a new observation mode to the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS), the workhorse multi-mode instrument on the Southern African Larg…
astro-ph.SR2025
Hot donors in cataclysmic variables: The case of EI Psc
J. Kára, S. Zharikov, M. Wolf +4
Context: We present results of time-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry of the short-orbital period dwarf nova EI Psc. Aims: This study aims to determine fundamental syste…
astro-ph.IM2025
The NIRWALS instrument detrending software pipeline
Ralf Kotulla, Marsha Wolf, Matt Bershady
We describe the basic instrument detrending software for the NIRWALS spectrograph on the SALT telescope. Its basic purpose is to process multiple non-destructive reads of increasin…