CANICA: The Cananea Near-Infrared Camera at the 2.1m OAGH Telescope

ABSTRACT The Cananea near-infrared camera (CANICA) is an instrument commissioned at the 2.12m telescope of the Guillermo Haro Astrophysical Observatory (OAGH) located in Cananea, Sonora, México. CANICA operates in the near-infrared at multiple bands including J(1.24µm), H(1.63µm) and K (2.12µm) broad-bands. CANICA in located at the Ritchey-Chrétien focal plane of the telescope, reimaging the f/12 beam into f/6 beam. The detector is a 1024 × 1024 HgCdTe HAWAII array of 18.5µm pixel size, covering a field of view of 5.5×5.5arcmin2, for a plate scale of 0.32arcsec/pixel. The camera is enclosed in a cryostat, cooled with liquid nitrogen to 77K. The cryostat contains the collimator, two 15-position filter wheels, single fixed reimaging optics and the detector.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Carrasco,L., Hernández Utrera,O., Vázquez,S., Mayya,Y. D., Carrasco,E., Pedraza,J., Castillo-Domínguez,E., Escobedo,G., Devaraj,R., Luna,A.
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Astronomía 2017
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0185-11012017000200022
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