Anglo-Australian Telescope
(AAT)
(3.9-m reflector telescope in Australia)
The Anglo-Australian Telescope is a 3.9-m
equatorial mounted reflector telescope
at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, built in 1974.
Among its instruments:
Former:
- IRIS2 - Wide-field spectrograph.
- SAMI - multiple IFU for AAOmega.
- UCLES - University College London Echelle Spectrograph.
- UHRS - Ultra High Resolution Facility echelle spectrograph.
Future:
- Hector - enlarged replacement for SAMI (with more fibers) plus additional spectrographs to use with it simultaneously with AAOmega.
2dF was commissioned in the mid 1990s, incorporating its own two
spectrographs, plus a robot to position 392 fibers (for 392 targets)
for either spectrograph while the other one was observing, imaging
a circular 2°-diameter region of the of the celestial sphere
covering more than 3 square degrees. Around 2006, the two
spectrographs were replaced by the more advanced AAOmega.
(telescope,reflector,ground,Australia)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Australian_Telescope
https://aat.anu.edu.au/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6269E..0GS/abstract
Referenced by pages:
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS)
2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey (2SLAQ)
Dark Energy Survey (DES)
DEVILS
equatorial mount
fiber positioner
GALAH
GAMA
Hawaii K-band Galaxy Survey
HERMES
monolithic mirror
rare designator prefixes
RESOLVE
Siding Spring Observatory (SSO)
Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5)
Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC)
WiggleZ
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