1.2-m Mercator telescope
1.2-m Mercator telescope
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| Location | Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain) |
| Coordinates | 28°46′ north, 17°53′ west |
| Altitude | 2333m |
| Type | optical alt-azimuth reflecting telescope |
| Opterated by | KU Leuven (Louvain, Belgium) |
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Telescope time
Request based on observing proposals:
| Form | Template in LaTeX |
| Submission | Proposal in PDF format by e-mail to Hans Van Winkel |
| Requirement | PI affiliated to a partner institute of the HERMES consortium |
Observing cycles
| Cycle A | 1 April - 30 September | (proposal deadline: end-February/begin-March) |
| Cycle B | 1 October - 31 March | (proposal deadline: end-August/begin-September) |
Instruments
HERMES (High Efficiency and Resolution Mercator Echelle Spectrograph): (website; Raskin et al., 2011, A&A 526, A69)
| Wavelengths | 377-900 nm (55 orders) |
| Spectral resolution | 85,000 |
| Second fiber | sky spectrum (HRF_OBJ mode) or wavelength reference spectrum (HRF_WRF_OBJ_TH mode) |
| Throughput | >25% in V |
| Radial velocity stability | >~2.5 m s-1 |
| Limiting magnitude | >60 min exposure ⇒ SNRV = 100 for mV = 10.4 mag |
| Stray light | ~0.1% of flux in adjacent orders, free of ghosts |
MAIA (Mercator Advanced Imager for Asteroseismology): (website; Raskin et al., 2013, A&A 559, A26)
| Field-of-view | 9.4 x 14.1 arcmin |
| Filters | u, g, r+i for science (simultaneous) z for guiding |
| Detector | 2048 x 6144 (13.5 micron) pixels; 3 science cameras and 1 guiding camera |
| Readout time | 295 ms for frame transfer shift, 30-43 s for full-frame readout |