A Calibrated Measurement of the Near-IR Continuum Sky Brightness Using Magellan/FIRE

We characterize the near-IR sky background from 308 observations with the Folded-port InfraRed Echellette (FIRE) spectrograph at Magellan. A subset of 105 observations selected to minimize lunar and thermal effects gives a continuous, median spectrum from 0.83 to 2.5 μ m, which we present in Table...

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Main Authors: Simcoe, Robert A., Sullivan, Peter W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press, The 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77190
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-9559