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18 July 2024 Assembly, integration, and verification phase of the SCORPIO instrument for Gemini South
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We present a status update on SCORPIO, the next facility instrument for the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachon, Chile. SCORPIO is now in advanced Assembly, Integration and Verification phase at SWRI (San Antonio) and LICA (Madrid) in anticipation of shipment to Chile by Fall-2025.
(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Massimo Robberto, Peter W. A. Roming, Cynthia S. Froning, Scott Sutherland, Todd J. Veach, Kelly D. Smith, Linda Theis, Adam Thorton, Tyler Barnes, Paul Schlueter, Rebecca R. Thibodeaux, Andrew L. Peterson, Alexa K. Mathias, Trent Peterson, Jeff Desmarais, Thomas Lechner, Dana Koeppe, Marísa Luisa L. García-Vargas, Manuel Maldonado Medina, Ana Pérez Calpena, Ernesto Sánchez Blanco, Gerardo Veredas, Andreas Seifahrt, David Henderson, Brian Chinn, Alena Cicakova, Laura Funk, Pablo Prado, Rodolfo Angeloni, Ruben Diaz, Thomas L. Hayward, Kathleen Labrie, Francisco Ramos, Rolando Rogers, Jose Varas, Sergio Troncoso, Ignacio Arriagada, Lindsay Magill, Oyku Galvan, Alexander van der Horst, Landon Gelman, Stephen Smee, Stephen C. Hope, Aidan Gray, and Robert H. Barkhouser "Assembly, integration, and verification phase of the SCORPIO instrument for Gemini South", Proc. SPIE 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 130968J (18 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020621
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KEYWORDS
Equipment

Cryostats

Optical benches

Gemini Observatory

Infrared radiation

Near infrared

Titanium

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