User's Guide to ShARCS


Table of Contents


Introduction
Summary Table
Detector Characteristics
Filters, Grisms, Apertures, Polarimeter
Software Overview
Data Taker GUI
Filter & Aperture Wheel GUI
Image Display GUI
Scripts
Sound server
Temperature Monitor
Observing Procedures and Tips
FITS Header Keywords
Trouble-Shooting
Logsheet

Data Archive
Mt. Hamilton Homepage

Introduction

ShARCS (Shane Ao infraRed Camera-Spectrograph) is a near infrared camera designed for use with the Shane Adaptive Optics system at the Cassegrain focus of the Shane 3-meter Telescope. ShARCS is equipped with a number of different filters (both broad and narrow band), grisms for spectroscopic work, and a polarimeter.

ShARCS has been in operation since April 2014 and utilizes a H2RG detector. Field of view is about 20 arcseconds and pixel scale is 0.033 arcsec/pixel. A summary of its characteristics are available in ShARCS_specs.pdf. Additional anaylsis of sensitivity and expected performace calculated by Srikar Srinath is available at http://www.ucolick.org/~srikar/ShARCS/.

ShARCS can only be used in conjuction with of the Shane Adaptive Optics system and is available to the University of California astronomical community by subscription.
Follow these links to:

3-m Time Allocation Policy
Observing Time Request Forms

All new users must be checked out by a resident astronomer on their first night. Please request support on your time application.

Please direct questions to a Mount Hamilton support astronomer
sa@ucolick.org.


Last modified: Sun Mar 13 13:00:51 PDT 2016