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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. It
is currently anticipated that the instrument will be delivered
to SOAR in December 2004 and should be available for science
use by mid 2005.
As initially deployed Spartan will have a focal plane conistsing of two "Hawaii-II" 2048x2048 pixel HgCdTe detectors. An upgrade planned for early-2006 will add another two such devices, that are being purchased using additional funds from Brazil.
Two different scales are provided: the f/21 channel has an FOV of 1.5 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 2.5 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. Initially only broadband J, H and K filters (based on the MKO-NIR prescription) will be available.
Further information is available from the Spartan IRC home page at MSU