VISTA: Status and Performance

被引：25

作者：

Emerson, J. P. ^{[1
]}

Sutherland, W. J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Queen Mary Univ London, Astron Unit, London E1 4NS, England

来源：

GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE TELESCOPES III | 2010年 / 7733卷

关键词：

VISTA; survey; telescope; wide field; camera; near-infrared; commissioning; performance; INFRARED SURVEY TELESCOPE; DATA-FLOW SYSTEM; IR CAMERA; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CURRENT PROGRAM; ASTRONOMY; SOFTWARE; PROJECT; WFCAM;

D O I：

10.1117/12.857105

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

VISTA, the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, is a 4-m class 1.65-degree wide field near-IR survey telescope with 0.34 arcsec pixels. VISTA was successfully commissioned and has been making surveys since 15 October 2009, and was formally accepted as a part of ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory on 10 December 2009. We summarise the design and build process, report on commissioning and the as-built status. The most novel aspects of the system design have proved to all work well. We report the measured on-sky system performance that confirms that VISTA works as expected.

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