The HRS team at Durham University have just announced laboratory "first light" with the Blue arm (370-555nm). These are the first end-to-end tests, where light was injected into a fibre and a resultant spectrum recorded. This was done for the Medium Resolution mode (R ~ 37,000), which utilizes a 3-slice Bowen-Walraven image slicer. The image below is an echellogram of the Sun using a test fibre.
Further optimization is continuing, leading up to the pre-ship testing in early June. Following successful completion of this, the instrument will be shipped to SALT for installation, hopefully in August.
David Buckley
SALT Science Director
15 May 2013
Further optimization is continuing, leading up to the pre-ship testing in early June. Following successful completion of this, the instrument will be shipped to SALT for installation, hopefully in August.
David Buckley
SALT Science Director
15 May 2013
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