FIRE: A Facility Class Near-Infrared Echelle Spectrometer for the Magellan Telescopes

By R. Simcoe, A. Burgasser, P. Schechter, J. Fishner, R. Bernstein, B. Bigelow, J. Pipher, W. Forrest, C. McMurtry, Matthew J. Smith and 1 more. 2013

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Spectroscopy

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. E. Berger
2. S. Smartt
3. N. Smith
4. A. Filippenko
5. Michael C. Liu
6. Ryan Chornock
7. Bing Zhang
8. B. Metzger

In Instrumentation

1. Michael C. Liu
2. A. Burgasser
3. Kelle Cruz
4. T. Dupuy
5. Jacqueline K. Faherty
6. J. D. Kirkpatrick
7. E. Berger
8. D. Lafrèniere

In Spectroscopy

1. Kelle Cruz
2. F. Walter
3. J. Carpenter
4. J. Gizis
5. A. Burgasser
6. E. Berger
7. K. Luhman
8. L. Hartmann

Citations in the corpus

• DISCOVERY, PROGENITOR AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF A STRIPPED ENVELOPE SUPERNOVA iPTF13bvn (2013, methodology): “…(Sand et al. in prep) on the robotic Faulkes Telescope (FT), the Dual Imaging Spectrograph (DIS) on the ARC 3.5- m telescope, the Folded-Port InfraRed Echellete (FIRE, Simcoe et al. 2013) on the 6.5-m Magellan telescope, and SpeX (Rayner et al. 2003) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).”
• BLACK HOLE MASS ESTIMATES AND EMISSION-LINE PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE OF REDSHIFT z > 6.5 QUASARS (2013, methodology): “Together with the new data, we analyze all the observations of the z > 6.5 sources collected by our group using the VLT/X-Shooter spectrograph and the Folded-port InfraRed Echellette spectrograph (FIRE; Simcoe et al. 2013) mounted on the Magellan Telescope.”
• PS16dtm: A Tidal Disruption Event in a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy (2017, methodology): “We obtained one epoch of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy on 5 February 2017 using the Folded-port Infrared Echellete (FIRE; Simcoe et al. 2013) on the 6.5-m Magellan Baade telescope.”
• A PANCHROMATIC VIEW OF THE RESTLESS SN 2009ip REVEALS THE EXPLOSIVE EJECTION OF A MASSIVE STAR ENVELOPE (2013, methodology): “Additional NIR low-resolution spectroscopy of SN 2009ip was obtained with the Folded-Port Infrared Echellette (FIRE) spectrograph (Simcoe et al. 2013) on the 6.5-m Magellan Baade Telescope, with simultaneous coverage from 0.82 to 2.51 µm.”
• THE PAN-STARRS1 DISTANT z > 5.6 QUASAR SURVEY: MORE THAN 100 QUASARS WITHIN THE FIRST GYR OF THE UNIVERSE (2016, background): “…dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2; Appenzeller & Rupprecht 1992) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Folded-port InfraRed Echellette (FIRE; Simcoe et al. 2008, 2013) spectrometer and the Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph (LDSS3) at the Baade and Clay telescopes at Las Campanas…”
• BANYAN. VII. A NEW POPULATION OF YOUNG SUBSTELLAR CANDIDATE MEMBERS OF NEARBY MOVING GROUPS FROM THE BASS SURVEY (2015, methodology): “FIRE at Magellan We obtained NIR spectroscopy for 17 targets with the Folded-port InfraRed Echellette (FIRE; Simcoe et al. 2008, 2013) at the Magellan Telescopes in April and December 2013, as well as May, June, August and September 2014 and February 2015.”
• PTF12os and iPTF13bvn. Two stripped-envelope supernovae from low-mass progenitors in NGC 5806 (2016, methodology): “We also present an additional NIR spectrum that was not published by Cao et al. (2013), obtained with the Folded-port InfraRed Echellette spectrograph (FIRE; Simcoe et al. 2013) on Magellan-Baade at 78 d past discovery.”