The MagE Spectrograph

Marshall, J. L.; Burles, Scott; Thompson, Ian B.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Bigelow, Bruce C.; Burley, Gregory; Birk, Christoph; Estrada, Jorge; Jones, Patricio; Smith, Matthew; Kowal, Vince; Castillo, Jerson; Storts, Robert; Ortiz, Greg; McLean, IS; Casali, MM
2008
GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY II, PTS 1-4
DOI
10.1117/12.789972
The Magellan Echellette (MagE) spectrograph is a single-object optical echellette spectrograph for the Magellan Clay telescope. MagE has been designed to have high throughput in the blue; the peak throughput is 22% at 5600 angstrom including the telescope. The wavelength coverage includes the entire optical window (3100 angstrom - 1 mu m). The spectral resolution for a 1" slit is R similar to 4100. MagE is a very simple spectrograph with only four moving parts, prism cross-dispersion, and a vacuum Schmidt camera. The instrument saw first light in November 2007 and is now routinely taking science observations.