UM Magellan Information Page  (Apr 5, 2008)

Please send comments, complaints, corrections, information about the content of this page to Mario Mateo:   mmateo@umich.edu


Summary of Magellan Instruments (one page excel file)
Summary of Magellan Instruments (one page PDF file)

Summary of Magellan Instrumentation:  A Reference for Users  (PPT file)


March 2008 SAC Meeting Instrument Overview Talks




May 2007 SAC Meeting Instrument Overview Talks
(This has links to Pending instrument status, including MagE, PFS, FourStar, FIRE, MegaCam (f/5), and MMIRS (f/5), as well as recent plans for PISCO and the UA AO system and MIRAC4)




Links to Magellan Instruments and Related Sites:

Las Campanas Observatory  - Home for many of the sites below; your one-stop site.


IMACS:
     Master IMACS Home Page
     User's Manual
     General Specifications
     General Information Page
     Making Slit Masks for IMACS

IMACS-IFU
     IMACS-IFU Acquisition software (Adam Bolton)
     IMACS-IFU Observing Cookbook

IMACS-MOE  (This is a link to the IMAC User's Manual. MOE PI is Andy McWilliam:  amcwilliam@ociw.edu)

IMACS-MMTF
      MMTF PI is Sylvain Vellieux (veilleux@astro.umd.edu)

IMACS-GISMO:  Site under construction.   GISMO PI is Mike Gladders (University of Chicago)


PANIC
      User's Manual and General Information
      General Specifications


MagIC  (Unavailable 2007B)
      User's Manual and General Information
      General Specifications


LDSS-3
      User's Manual
      General Information Page
      General Specifications

MIKESystem Overview
      User's Manual
      General Information Page
      General Specifications


MIKE-MMFS
       System Overview
       MMFS PI is Mario Mateo (mmateo@umich.edu); Contact for further details, plate fabrication, observing and data reduction information.
       Preliminary User's Guide  (pdf file)

MagE - New for 2008B!
       User's Manual
       A general MagE web page at LCO is also available; this lists standards, comparison atlases, etc.  Scott Burles at MIT is the MagE PI.


Software for Magellan  Instruments:
     COSMOS (IMACS Reductions but not for all modes)
     Python Tools  (IMACS, MIKE, other Magellan instruments)
     PANIC Software
     MMTF Reduction
     MagIC Reductions with IRAF
     MIKE IDL Reduction tools
     MIKE Python Reduction tools
     MIKE IRAF Reduction tools



Local Experts  (Contact these people to learn more regarding their areas of Magellan expertise; umich.edu username in parentheses):

Mario Mateo (mmateo):  MMFS setup, observing, reduction; MIKE direct; MagIC; IMACS Imaging, slit astrometry and setup.

Sally Oey (msoey):  COSMOS reduction of IMACS spectra; MIKE direct.

Joel Lamb (joellamb):  COSMOS reduction of IMACS spectra.