Limited Access to NIRSPEC on KECK II
Offered to the Gemini Community

The W. M. Keck Observatory has allocated to the Gemini Observatory 3 nights per semester over the next two years for use of its 1-5 micron spectrograph, NIRSPEC, on the 10-m Keck II telescope. These observations will be carried out in a "Service Observing" mode, with Gemini staff executing observations on behalf of successful applicants from the Gemini partnership. Proposals for use of this NIRSPEC time are to be submitted to the Gemini Observatory, and will be reviewed and prioritized by external scientific referees and internal technical assessors. The Gemini NIRSPEC time in semester 2000A is in April and May and the deadline for submission of proposals for use of that time is February 21. Calls for proposals will be issued for each semester. Further information about this opportunity, including information about NIRSPEC and application forms, is available from the Gemini web pages

The following brief explanation is excerpted from the NIRSPEC page...

NIRSPEC is a near-infrared cross-dispersed echelle grating spectrometer destined to operate at the Nasmyth focus on Keck II. It will feature a 1024² InSb detector array and provide spectroscopy at resolutions of R=2,000 or 25,000 over the 1-5 µm wavelength range.  NIRSPEC is designed to study very high redshift radio galaxies, the motions and types of stars located near the Galactic Center, as well as the nuclear regions of dusty starburst galaxies, active galactic nuclei, interstellar chemistry, stellar physics and solar-system science.

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