The Mitchell Spectrograph: Studying Nearby Galaxies with the VIRUS Prototype
The Mitchell Spectrograph (a.k.a. VIRUS-P) on the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith telescope at McDonald Observatory is currently the largest field of view (FOV) integral field unit (IFU) spectrograph in the world (1.7′×1.7′). It was designed as a prototype for the highly replicable VIRUS spectrograph which co...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2013-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Astronomy |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/641612 |