SpeX: A Medium‐Resolution 0.8–5.5 Micron Spectrograph and Imager for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

By J. Rayner, D. Toomey, P. Onaka, A. Denault, W. Stahlberger, W. D. Vacca, M. Cushing, S. Wang. 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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• STELLAR AND PLANETARY PROPERTIES OF K2 CAMPAIGN 1 CANDIDATES AND VALIDATION OF 17 PLANETS, INCLUDING A PLANET RECEIVING EARTH-LIKE INSOLATION (2015, methodology): “SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) and SpeX Spectroscopy A near-infrared spectrum of K2-18 was obtained using the upgraded SpeX spectrograph (Rayner et al. 2003) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on 2015 January 29 (UT).”
• A NEARBY M STAR WITH THREE TRANSITING SUPER-EARTHS DISCOVERED BY K2 (2015, methodology): “We observed K2-3 on 2015 January 11 UT using the recently refurbished SpeX spectrograph (Rayner et al. 2003) on the 3.0m NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).”
• An Infrared Spectroscopic Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs (2004, methodology): “We reduced the data using Spextool (Cushing et al. 2004), the facility IDL-based data reduction package for SpeX.”
• SpeX SPECTROSCOPY OF UNRESOLVED VERY LOW MASS BINARIES. I. IDENTIFICATION OF 17 CANDIDATE BINARIES STRADDLING THE L DWARF/T DWARF TRANSITION (2009, methodology): “Our analysis is based on a large sample of low-resolution, near-infrared spectra of L and T dwarfs obtained with SpeX (Rayner et al. 2003), a low-resolution, 0.8–5.4 µm spectrograph mounted on the 3m NASA Infrared Telescope Facility.”
• FROM SHOCK BREAKOUT TO PEAK AND BEYOND: EXTENSIVE PANCHROMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE TYPE Ib SUPERNOVA 2008D ASSOCIATED WITH SWIFT X-RAY TRANSIENT 080109 (2008, methodology): “Four NIR spectra were obtained on 2008 Jan. 14.45, 21.51, 28.51 and 2008 Mar. 14.48 using the 3.0-m telescope at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) with the SpeX medium-resolution spectrograph in prism (LRS) mode (Rayner et al. 2003).”
• Characterizing Young Brown Dwarfs Using Low-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra (2006, methodology): “Our near-IR spectrum of the object was taken on 2002May 30 UTusing the SpeX spectrograph (Rayner et al. 2003) on NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), located on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.”
• A STUDY OF THE DIVERSE T DWARF POPULATION REVEALED BY WISE (2013, methodology): “5 classification from our IRTF/SpeX spectrum.”
• Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk (2018, methodology): “In our case, instead of a synthetic spectrum which does not account for any (near-)infrared excess, we made use of the flux calibrated spectrum of PDS 70 from the SpeX spectrograph (Rayner et al. 2003) which is presented in Long et al. (2018).”
• NEAR-INFRARED METALLICITIES, RADIAL VELOCITIES, AND SPECTRAL TYPES FOR 447 NEARBY M DWARFS (2013, methodology): “Terrien et al. (2012) applied the methods of R10 to spectra obtained with the SpeX instrument on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), using22 CPM pairs as calibrators.”
• Discovery of Two Nearby Peculiar L Dwarfs from the 2MASS Proper-Motion Survey: Young or Metal-Rich? (2008, methodology): “Prism Mode: ∼0.7–2.5 µm Near-infrared spectra for 2MASS J1821+1414 and 2MASS J2148+4003 were also obtained with SpeX (Rayner et al. 2003) on the 3.0-m NASA Infrared Telescope Facility.”
• THE 0.8–14.5 μm SPECTRA OF MID-L TO MID-T DWARFS: DIAGNOSTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE, GRAIN SEDIMENTATION, GAS TRANSPORT, AND SURFACE GRAVITY (2009, methodology): “Cushing et al. (2005) obtained high-resolution (λ/∆λ ≈ 1200 or 2000), 0.9–2.4 µm spectra of these dwarfs with the SpeX instrument (Rayner et al. 2003) at NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility.”
• Spextool: A Spectral Extraction Package for SpeX, a 0.8–5.5 Micron Cross‐Dispersed Spectrograph (2004, methodology): “Table 1 provides a summary of the various observing modes for SpeX.”
• FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS AND SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF YOUNG AND FIELD AGE OBJECTS WITH MASSES SPANNING THE STELLAR TO PLANETARY REGIME (2015, methodology): “(1) Oke et al. (1995), (2) Appenzeller et al. (1998), (3) Marshall et al. (2008), (4) Kashikawa et al. (2000), (5) Allington-Smith et al. (1994), (6) Rayner et al. (2003), (7) Allington-Smith et al. (2002), (8) Simcoe et al. (2008), (9) Elias et al. (2006), (10)Wilson et al. (2004), (11) Mountain…”
• UNVEILING THE STRUCTURE OF PRE-TRANSITIONAL DISKS (2010, methodology): “OBSERVATIONS & DATA REDUCTION Near-infrared spectra of LkCa 14, LkCa 15, UX Tau A, Rox 44, GM Aur, and DM Tau were obtained at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) facility using SpeX (Rayner et al. 2003).”
• SPECTRO-THERMOMETRY OF M DWARFS AND THEIR CANDIDATE PLANETS: TOO HOT, TOO COOL, OR JUST RIGHT? (2013, methodology): “We obtained NIR spectra of our B12 calibration sample and selected Kepler stars with candidate HZ planets (see Section 7) using the SpeX spectrograph (Rayner et al. 2003) attached to the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea.”