Performance and results with the NIRSPEC echelle spectrograph on the Keck II telescope

By I. McLean, J. Graham, E. Becklin, D. Figer, J. Larkin, N. Levenson, H. Teplitz. Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000

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Identifying Young Brown Dwarfs Using Gravity-Sensitive Spectral Features (2003, methodology): “A detailed description of NIRSPEC is given elsewhere (McLean et al. 1998, 2000).”
Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way’s Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits (2008, methodology): “In the case of the NIRSPEC observations, the A-type star’s Br feature is corrected with a model spectrum of Vega10 rebinned to the resolution of the A-type star’s spectrum and convolved with a Gaussian to match the spectral resolution of the observations.”
Toward Spectral Classification of L and T Dwarfs: Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy and Analysis (2001, methodology): “Some of the new spectra were obtained using the NearInfrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC; McLean et al. 2000a) on 470 GEBALLE ET AL.”
The Connection between Galaxies and Intergalactic Absorption Lines at Redshift 2 ≲ z ≲ 3 (2005, methodology): “For comparison, repeated observations of galaxies in the NIRSPEC sample suggest that these galaxies’ redshifts have a random uncertainty of 60 km s−1.”
The Chemical Composition of an Extrasolar Minor Planet (2007, methodology): “We also analyzed a near-infrared spectrum over the range 10650Y10810 8 obtained in 2006 August with the NIRSPEC spectrometer (McLean et al. 2000) on the Keck II telescope.”
A STUDY OF THE DIVERSE T DWARF POPULATION REVEALED BY WISE (2013, methodology): “Observations with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC; McLean et al. 1998, 2000) at the 10 m W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, HI, were made with slit widths of 0.”
The First Substellar Subdwarf? Discovery of a Metal-poor L Dwarf with Halo Kinematics (2003, methodology): “In x 3 we describe spectroscopic observations of 2MASS 0532+8246 obtained with the Near-IR Spectrometer (NIRSPEC: McLean et al. 1998, 2000) and Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (LRIS; Oke et al. 1995) at Keck Observatory.”
The Host Galaxy of GRB 031203: Implications of Its Low Metallicity, Low Redshift, and Starburst Nature (2004, methodology): “We imaged the field using the slit viewing camera (SCAM) of NIRSPEC (McLean et al. 2000) in the N3 (∼ J-band), N5 (∼ H-band) and K ′ filters for total exposure times of 540s each.”
FURTHER DEFINING SPECTRAL TYPE “Y” AND EXPLORING THE LOW-MASS END OF THE FIELD BROWN DWARF MASS FUNCTION (2012, methodology): “The Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC, McLean et al. 1998, 2000) at the 10m W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i, was used to confirm three of our new Y dwarfs and to obtain additional signal for a fourth, WISE 2056+1459 (Cushing et al. 2011).”
Iron Emission in the z = 6.4 Quasar SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 (2003, methodology): “OBSERVATIONS AND REDUCTIONS The observations were obtained using the NIRSPEC spectrograph (McLean et al. 2000) at the Keck-II telescope on the nights of 2003 March 11 and 12 UT.”
Discovery of Two Nearby Peculiar L Dwarfs from the 2MASS Proper-Motion Survey: Young or Metal-Rich? (2008, methodology): “Keck-NIRSPEC Spectroscopy 2MASS J1821+1414 and 2MASS J2148+4003 were observed with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC, McLean et al. 1998, 2000) on the 10-m W. M. Keck Observatory.”
DISCOVERIES FROM A NEAR-INFRARED PROPER MOTION SURVEY USING MULTI-EPOCH TWO MICRON ALL-SKY SURVEY DATA (2010, methodology): “Additional spectra were obtained with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC, McLean et al. 1998, 2000) on the 10-m W. M. Keck Observatory.”
Discovery of a Very Young Field L Dwarf, 2MASS J01415823–4633574 (2005, methodology): “2MASS 0141−4633 was also observed on 2004 Nov 06 UT with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC, McLean et al. 1998, 2000) on the 10-m W. M. Keck Observatory.”
Gas in the Terrestrial Planet Region of Disks: CO Fundamental Emission from T Tauri Stars (2003, methodology): “NIRSPEC We also obtained high-resolution (R ¼ 23; 000) spectra of a larger sample of T Tauri stars, both single stars and binaries, with NIRSPEC (see Table 1), the facility cryogenic infrared echelle spectrometer on the Keck II telescope (McLean et al. 1998, 2000).”