Spartan Infrared Camera

Spartan is available for 2010-A. This will be in shared-risk mode pending full characterization. A brief guide for 2010-A proposals is available here

The Spartan Infrared Camera is a high spatial resolution near-IR imager being built at Michigan State University under the leadership of Prof. Edwin Loh.

Spartan has a focal plane conisisting of four "Hawaii-II" 2048x2048 pixel HgCdTe detectors.

Two different scales are provided: the f/21 channel has an FOV of 3.0 x 3.0 arcmin with a scale of 0.043 arcsec/pixel chosen to resolve the diffraction limited core of Tip-Tilt corrected images in the H, and K bands; the f/12 channel offers an FOV of 5.0 x 5.0 arcmin at 0.073 arcsec/pixel.

Spartan has two filters wheels which together can hold a total of 29, 50mm diameter filters of thickness up to 15mm. Broadband J, H and K (based on the MKO-NIR prescription) and a fairly extensive set of narrow-band filters are available.

Further information is available from the Spartan IRC home page at MSU

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The Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope is a 4.1 meter aperture telescope designed to produce the best quality images of any observatory in its class in the world. It was funded by a a partnership between the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the country of Brazil, Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). SOAR is situated on Cerro Pachón at an altitude of 2,700 meters (8,775 feet) above sea level, at the western edge of the peaks of the Chilean Andes.