Instruments
The AAT is equipped with a number of instruments, including :
- the Two Degree Field facility (2dF), a robotic optical fibre positioner for obtaining spectroscopy of up to 400 objects over a 2° field of view simultaneously;
- the University College London Échelle Spectrograph (UCLES), a high-resolution optical spectrograph which has been used to discover many extrasolar planets; and
- IRIS2, a wide-field infrared camera and spectrograph.
- HERMES
- will be commissioned in 2013. It is a new spectrograph to be used with the 2dF fibre positioner. HERMES will be used for the ‘Galactic Archaeology‘ (GA) Survey, which aims to reconstruct the history of our Galaxy's formation from precise multi-element (~25) abundances of 1 million stars derived from HERMES spectra.
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