Magellan technical updates, Pasadena April 2006 – September 2006.

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Magellan technical updates, Pasadena April 2006 – September 2006

Instrument Development Meetings with instrument teams catch interface problems –Telescope –Guiders –Computing –Logistics Observatory learns about design, construction, and maintenance requirements

Instrument Development PISCO (Parallel Imager for Southern Cosmology Obsv’ns) –Chris Stubbs, Tony Stark, Will High –In design PFS (Planet Finding Spectrograph) –Paul Butler, Steve Shectman, Jeff Crane –Halfway thorough construction

Instrument Development MagE (Magellan Echellette) –Scott Burles, Ian Thompson, Steve Shectman –Early construction FIRE (Folded port Infrared Echellette) –Rob Simcoe, Adam Burgasser –PDR soon

Instrument Development FourStar (4K IR imager) –Eric Persson, David Murphy, JHU/IDG –CDR soon Mosaic2 (second CCD dewar for IMACS) –Alan Dressler, Ian Thompson, Pat McCarthy, Alan Uomoto –CCDs ordered; construction starting soon

Instrument Development WFC (Wide Field Corrector for f/5) –Andy Szentgyorgyi –Construction almost finished

Instrument deployments MMTF (Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter) –Sylvain Veilleux, Ben Weiner, Alan Dressler, OCIW engineering –Successful installation and testing –Further engineering this semester –

MMTF N4945 Hα, 20Å, 15 min exp

Instrument deployments POETS (Portable Occultation Eclipse and Transit System) –Jim Elliot, Alycia Weinberger, Mercedes López-Morales, David Osip –Successful speckle tests LLL mode (Weinberger) –Successful photometric transit observations (López- Morales )

F/5 secondary mirror Mirror is being integrated onto the polishing cell at SOML Approximate finish date is mid-2007 Expect 2007B engineering on Clay (baffles, testing)

Guider upgrades Charlie Hull, Jose Soto New lead screws for finer position control Modifications to improve reliability –New motion actuator designs –Better cable routing and strain relief –Testing this year

Primary mirror actuators Rev3 samples installed 29 more rev3 cards in production

Bibliography 186 refereed publications total