2008 Workshop:Planning for CESAR

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Planning for CESAR

Contents 1 Planning for CESAR 1.1 Location 1.2 Date/Time 1.3 Conveners 1.4 Format of the Workshop 1.5 Duration 1.6 Estimated attendance 1.7 Conflicts with other workshops 1.8 Special technology requests 1.9 Forum 1.10 Brief Initial Description 1.11 Workshop Summary 1.12 Presentation Resources

Location

Basel

Date/Time

1300-1500 Thursday 19 June 2008

Conveners

• Tom Slanger
• Elizabeth Kendall

Format of the Workshop

tutorial

Duration

2 hours (default)

Estimated attendance

20

Conflicts with other workshops

There is an AMISR workshop scheduled for Friday/Saturday that we don¿t want to overlap with. Best would be to have the workshop on Wednesday or Thursday.

Special technology requests

LCD and overheads

Forum

Comments, Questions, Discussion Forum

Brief Initial Description

CESAR (Compact Echelle Spectrograph for Aeronomic Research) will be ready for use by the aeronomy community in 2011. The intention of the workshop is to introduce the concept to CEDAR. The instrument is a scaled-down version of the HIRES spectrograph on the Keck I telescope on Mauna Kea, which we have shown produces superlative nightglow spectra. CESAR will accumulate data rapidly, and simultaneously over a large wavelength region. Advantages to working with CESAR are that we will not have to rely on the astronomers' protocols and that the system will be re-locatable, with initial deployment scheduled for Alaska.

For students: The CESAR project, funded by the NSF Major Research Instrumentation program, involves the construction of a large echelle spectrograph to be used for aeronomical research. This instrument, patterned after a system in use at the Keck I astronomical observatory on Mauna Kea, is to be used to study nightglow and auroral phenomena. The Keck instrument constantly generates spectra of the night sky which have proven to be extremely valuable for aeronomic studies, although they are of little interest to astronomers. The important characteristics to our community are high-resolution, broad spectral coverage, and good sensitivity, and we will build these important factors into CESAR (Compact Echelle Spectrograph for Aeronomic Research). Control over our own instrument, both in terms of where it is sited and an aeronomic observing program, are also crucial issues. We plan to have the instrument in operation in Alaska in 2011.

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