@inproceedings{b02185ad526c466085c13ece456a7c68,
title = "CanariCam: a multimode mid-infrared camera for the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS",
abstract = "The University of Florida is developing a mid-infrared camera for the 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio CANARIAS. CanariCam has four science modes and two engineering modes, which use the same 320 x 240-pixel, arsenic-doped silicon, blocked-impurity-band detector from Raytheon. Each mode can be remotely selected quickly during an observing sequence. The pixel scale is 0.08 arcsec, resulting in Nyquist sampling of the diffraction-limited point-spread-function at 8 μm, the shortest wavelength for which CanariCam is optimized. The total available field of view for imaging is 26 arcsec x 19 arcsec. The primary science mode will be diffraction-limited imaging using one of several available spectral filters in the 10 μm (8-14 μm) and 20 μm (16-25 μm) atmospheric windows. Any one of four plane gratings can be inserted for low and moderate-resolution (R = 100 - 1300) slit spectroscopy in the 10 and 20-μm regions. Insertion of appropriate field and pupil stops converts the camera into a coronagraph, while insertion of an internal rotating half-wave plate, a field mask, and a Wollaston prism converts the camera into a dual-beam polarimeter.",
author = "C.M. Telesco and D. Ciardi and J. French and C. Ftaclas and K.T. Hanna and J. Hough and J. Julian and M. Kidger and C. Packham and R.K. Pina and F. Varosi and R.G. Sellar",
note = "Copyright 2003 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. DOI: 10.1117/12.458979 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1117/12.458979",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the SPIE",
publisher = "Int Soc for Optical Engineering",
pages = "913--922",
booktitle = "Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes 4841",
}