IFU Spectrograph Instruments

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IFU Spectrographs
  FRODOSPEC PMAS/PPAK AAOmega/SPIRAL OASIS
Year of commissioning 2009 2002   2003
Location La Palma CAHA, Spain Australia La Palma
Telescope Name Liverpool Telescope 3.5m AAT WHT
Telescope Size 2 3.5 3.92 4.2
Operated by LJMU/STFC CAHA AAO STFC
Type IFU IFU IFU IFU
Accessible wavelength range 0.38-0.75 0.4-1.1 0.4-0.9 0.4-1.0
Accessible field 10" PPAK: 1x1.2 arcmin 22x11 arcsec 4-10"'
Resolving power(s) 2200-5500 300-8000 1300-10000 1000-4000
Unvignetted array dimensions (pixels)        
Detector pixel size (actual)       18.5 µm
Fiber/lenslet dimension on sky 0.82 2.7" 1" 0.09-0.26"
Dispersion (nm/pix)        
Spectropolarimetry NO NO   NO
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