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The Boller & Chivens fast uv-transmitting image tube spectrograph was
used at the f/10 focus of the 1.0m telescope.
Plate Scale (at f/10 focal plane) 19.5 arcsec/mm
Slit Length 19mm mm, 370 arcsec
Collimator Focal Length 900 mm
Point source collimated beam diameter 90 mm
Collimator-to-Camera Angle 49 degrees
Grating size 128[INVALID_PDS_CHARACTER]102 mm
Camera Focal Length 140 mm
Demagnification 6.455
Plate Scale (at detector) 125 arcsec/mm
The 2D-Frutti was a two-dimensional photon counting detector, originally developed by
Steve Shectman then of the Mt Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories. The sensitivity
of this detector is determined by the S-20 photocathode of the Carnegie image tube
which provides the first intensification stage. This peaks at ~ 4200A, declining
slowly toward the red, so that 7300A can be taken as its red limit. In the UV, the
2D-Frutti was sensitive down to the atmospheric cutoff (3200A). The 2D-Frutti
offered a format up to 1.5-M pixels, zero readout noise, and low dark current ( < 1
count/pixel/hour for 1x1 binning). Conversely the 2D-Frutti could be irreversibly
damaged by over illumination and count rates must be further limited to typically < 1
cts/pixel/second, because of coincidence losses. Even with these precautions, the
2D-Frutti was not really all that linear.
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