1. SED Machine A Transient Classifier

2. Electromagnetic counterparts to physics experiments.

3. P60 Lick 3 m WHT 4.2 m Mayall 4 m P200 Gemini P48 P200 Palomar Transient Factory Discovery Spectral Classification Follow up Keck Gemini HST P60 + four band imaging

4. Requirements Flowdown & Design The SED Machine’s conceptual design is a pathfinder, designed to maximize classification throughput on 1.5- to 4-m telescopes.

5. Hardware Testing Ongong Sagi Ben Ami (Weizmann) Kathleen Knobbe (CIT)

6. SED Machine A Transient Classifier

7. To classify with a single observation, R=100 is sufficient: data

8. Prisms offer several advantages over gratings, but require multiple elements to achieve constant dispersion. From Jeff Crane (OCIW) via email