The CGS4 Online Handbook.
CGS4 is a 1-5um multi-purpose 2D grating spectrometer containing a 256×256 InSb array, installed in a cryostat which is cooled by liquid nitrogen and closed cycle coolers. Four gratings are available, two of which are installed in the cryostat at any one time. They are a 40 l/mm grating which provides resolving powers of 500-2200, a 75 l/mm grating, a 150 l/mm grating which provides resolving powers of roughly 3000-8500, and a 31 l/mm echelle which provides a resolving power of about 37,000 (8 km/s). The 75 l/mm grating is rarely used thesedays. These resolving powers are achieved with the 300 mm focal length camera optics and a one-pixel-wide slit, which provide a scale of 0.6 arcsec/pixel for the two moderate resolution gratings and roughly 0.41×0.90 arcsec/pixel for the echelle (0.41 arcsec/pixel in the direction of the dispersion).
- Introduction to CGS4
- Optical Parameters and Observing
- Optical Layout
- Sensitivity
- CGS4 Exposure Times
- Resolution and Wavelength Coverage
- Grating Efficiencies
- Filters
- Pixel Scales
- Slit Angles (old, pre-2003)
- Slit Angles (current orientation [since late 2002])
- Notes on using the Echelle Grating
- The Echelle and Peakups etc
- Configuration Parameter Notes
- Array Latency
- Peak-up Procedures
- Observing Preparation with ORAC-OT
- Mauna Kea site
- Calibration
- Data reduction with ORAC-DR
- Offline CGS4 data reduction
- The old CGS4 handbook and web pages are here if you really need them.
- The Whole CGS4 documentation, bundled into one huge web page for easy printing, is here.