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The forth near infrared camera was installed.

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Time flies; it’s already a half of 2024 was over. In this article we are goin to report that we have achieved a milestone in the middle of June. The PFS instrument obtains about 2400 spectra using 4 spectrograph modules. Each module has three cameras; blue, red and near-infrared. Among of them, the near-infrared cameras have been developed at Johns… Read more »

The first near-infrared camera has arrived at LAM!

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We PFS project reached many milestones in September 2022. We are going to report them in the coming articles. First of all, finally, the first near-infrared camera has been shipped from Johns Hopkins University (JHU, USA) to Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM, France)!! PFS Spectrograph equips three cameras, two visible cameras (blue and red) and one near-infrared camera, and takes… Read more »

Assemble of the first Near-Infrared Camera Unit

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The topic of this post is the development of the Near-Infrared Camera Units at Johns Hopkins University. Each Spectrograph module of the PFS project equips three cameras — visible-blue, visible-red and near-infrared — to take spectra whose wavelength ranges from 380 nm to 1260 nm with a single shot. Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Princeton University (PU) in the United… Read more »