Magellan I/II Overview

Magellan Telescopes: 6.5m Magellan I (Walter Baade) and Magellan II (Landon Clay)

Magellan Partners: Carnegie Institution of Washington (OCIW;50%), Harvard (20%), UA(10%), Michigan (10%), MIT (10%)

MMTO Scientific Advisory Committee: P. Schecter (MIT); L. Close (UA); M. Mateo (UMI); J. Huchra (Harvard); A. Szentgyorgyo (CfA); E. Persson, I. Thompson, A. Dressler, & A. Weinberger (Carnegie)

Instrumentation: Latest Updates, Powerpoint files (f/11 Gregorian at Nasmyth)

Scheduling periods: Semesters from late Jan.-June and July-Jan. Exact dates change slightly from year to year depending on engineering runs. UA scheduler is D. Zaritsky.

Instrumentation Updates for 2008A
1. MagIC is expected to be available after January.
2. The new echellette (MagE) will be available on a shared-risk basis. It will arrive in January on a folded port, and not offered until July??
3. The Maryland-Magellan tunable filter for IMACS is available.
4. The IMACS camera has been rotated by 90-deg for future use at the f/2 camera focus. To make N&S multislit observations the grisms are now rotated by 90-deg. You must make your slitmasks use the latest version of the maskgen -- the mask making software. Old N&S masks will not work!

Facility Instruments and Contact Scientists

  • IMACS (A. Dressler): The Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph is a versatile wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph mounted at the Baade Nasmyth West port.
  • IMACS+MMTF (S. Veilleux): The Magellan-Maryland Tunable Filter is a Fabry-Perot etalon that may be used in conjunction with IMACS for wide field, narrow-band imaging.
  • LDSS-3 (D. Osip, J. Mulchaey): The Low Dispersion Survey Spectrographis a high efficiency, wide-field multislit spectrograph mounted at the Clay Nasmyth West port.
  • MIKE (R. Bernstein): The Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle is a high-throughput double echelle spectrograph mounted on the Clay Nasmyth East platform.
  • MagE (S. Burles): The Magellan Echellette Spectrograph is an echelle spectrograph for the Clay telescope that is being built in cooperation with Scott Burles of MIT. More information and a user manual are located here.
  • MIKE+fibers (M. Mateo):
  • MagIC (D. Osip): The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Magellan Instant Camera is a direct CCD imager mounted on the Clay AUX3 folded port.
  • PANIC (E. Persson): Persson's Auxiliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera is a general purpose 1-2.5 micron imager mounted on the Baade Nasmyth East port.

    • Future Instruments and Contact Scientists

  • FIRE (R. Simcoe): is a dual-mode near red (NIR).
  • FourStar (): is a widefield near-infrared camera for use on the Baade telescope.
  • MegaCam (): is an extremely large format imager operating at the Clay f/5 focus with a 0.5º FOV.
  • MMIRS (B. McLeod): The MMT Magellan InfraRed Spectrograph is a near infrared multiobject spectrograph operating at the Clay f/5 focus.
  • AO + MIRAC4 (L. Close, P. Hinz, W. Hoffmann): A fourth generation Mid-InfraRed Array Camera (MIRAC4) that has an operating wavelength range of 2 to 26 microns. This will operated in conjunction with an adaptive optic secondary very similar to that currently in use at the MMT.
  • PFS (): The Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph (PFS) is a high resolution echelle spectrograph being constructed for use at the Nasmyth focus of the Clay telescope.
  • PISCO (): PISCO is a multiband imager that simultaneously images in the Sloan g, r, i & z bands