Naik, M. B. ; Ojha, D. K. ; Ghosh, S. K. ; Poojary, S. S. ; Jadhav, R. B. ; Meshram, G. S. ; Sandimani, P. R. ; Bhagat, S. B. ; D’Costa, S. L. A. ; Gharat, S. M. ; Bakalkar, C. B. ; Ninan, J. P. ; Joshi, J. S. (2012) TIRCAM2: the TIFR near infrared imaging camera Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 40 (4). pp. 531-545. ISSN 0304-9523
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TIRCAM2 (TIFR near infrared imaging camera - II) is a closed cycle cooled imager that has been developed by the Infrared Astronomy Group at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research for observations in the near infrared band of 1 to 3.7 μm with existing Indian telescopes. In this paper, we describe some of the techni- cal details of TIRCAM2 and report its observing capabilities, measured performance and limiting magnitudes with the 2-m IUCAA Girawali telescope and the 1.2-m PRL Gurushikhar telescope. The main highlight is the camera’s capability of observing in the nbL (3.59 μm) band enabling our primary motivation of mapping of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) emission at 3.3 μm.
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| Keywords: | Instrumentation: Detectors; Instrumentation: Photometers |
| ID Code: | 104545 |
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