SCORPIO: the Gemini facility instrument for LSST follow-up

Massimo Robberto; Peter W. Roming; Alexander J. van der Horst; Susan Pope; Todd J. Veach; Marisa L. García Vargas; Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco; Manuel Maldonado Medina; Ana Perez; Antonina G. Brody; Kelly D. Smith; Ronnie L. Killough; Kristian B. Persson; Jason L. Stange; Amanda J. Bayless; Stephen Goodsell; Jeffrey Radwick; Morten Andersen; Ruben Diaz; Manuel Lazo; Thomas Hayward; Scot Kleinman

doi:10.1117/12.2504817

6 July 2018 SCORPIO: the Gemini facility instrument for LSST follow-up

Massimo Robberto, Peter W. Roming, Alexander J. van der Horst, Susan Pope, Todd J. Veach, Marisa L. García Vargas, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, Manuel Maldonado Medina, Ana Perez, Antonina G. Brody, Kelly D. Smith, Ronnie L. Killough, Kristian B. Persson, Jason L. Stange, Amanda J. Bayless, Stephen Goodsell, Jeffrey Radwick, Morten Andersen, Ruben Diaz, Manuel Lazo, Thomas Hayward, Scot Kleinman

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Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107020I (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2504817
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

We present the current status of the SCORPIO project, the facility instrument for Gemini South designed to perform follow up studies of transients in the LSST era while carrying out with unique efficiency a great variety of astrophysical programs. SCORPIO operates in the wavelength range 385-2350 nanometers, observing simultaneously in the grizYJHK bands. It can be used both in imaging (seeing limited) and spectroscopic (long-slit) mode, and thanks to the use of frame-transfer CCDs it can monitor variable sources with milli-second time-resolution. The project has recently passed PDR and is on schedule to be commissioned at the time of the LSST first light.

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Massimo Robberto, Peter W. Roming, Alexander J. van der Horst, Susan Pope, Todd J. Veach, Marisa L. García Vargas, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco, Manuel Maldonado Medina, Ana Perez, Antonina G. Brody, Kelly D. Smith, Ronnie L. Killough, Kristian B. Persson, Jason L. Stange, Amanda J. Bayless, Stephen Goodsell, Jeffrey Radwick, Morten Andersen, Ruben Diaz, Manuel Lazo, Thomas Hayward, and Scot Kleinman "SCORPIO: the Gemini facility instrument for LSST follow-up", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 107020I (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2504817

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