FAST Spectrograph

Instrument paper	The FAST Spectrograph for the Tillinghast Telescope by Daniel Fabricant, Peter Cheimets, Nelson Caldwell, and John Geary Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, January 1998, Volume 110, Issue 743, pp. 79-85. [ADS Abstract] [PASP Full Text]
FAST Specifications	These pages describe the spectrograph and how it works. Much of the same information is in the instrument paper. FAST Detectors    FAST instrument modification log
Archive Data Paper Includes observing, processing and archiving	Center for Astrophysics Optical Infrared Science Archive I. FAST Spectrograph by Jessica Mink, Warren R. Brown, Igor V. Chilingarian, Daniel Fabricant, Michael J. Kurtz, Sean Moran, Jaehyon Rhee, Susan Tokarz, William F. Wyatt The Astronomical Journal, January 2021, Volume 161, Issue 1, id.3, 12 pp. [ADS abstract] [AJ full text] [AJ PDF] [AJ epub] [arXiv preprint]
Observing	Spectral Extraction Quick-Look Software (qfast) FAST Observing Protocols Count Rates for FAST Observations
Processing	FAST Processing Directions by Jessica Mink (last updated 2023-05-09) FAST Reduction Manual by Susan Tokarz and Nathalie Martimbeau (last updated 2008-01-22) RoadRunner: An Automated Reduction System for Long Slit Spectroscopic Data by Susan P. Tokarz and John Roll Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 125, 1997, Editors: Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne [ADS Abstract] [local full Text] [ADASS VI full text] FAST HeNeAr Calibration Spectrum    Templates used in FAST analysis Using the FAST Database
Archive Warning! FAST spectra are not photometrically calibrated unless otherwise noted.	A Quarter-Century (Almost) of Spectra from FAST by Jessica Mink, Jaehyon Rhee, Sean Moran, and Warren Brown Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 522, Proceedings of a conference held (22-26 October 2017) at Sheraton Santiago Convention Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Edited by Pascal Ballester, Jorge Ibsen, Mauricio Solar, and Keith Shortridge. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2020, p.655, April 2020. [ADS Abstract] ASP Proceedings Abstract] [Poster]] [Paper] Search the Fast Public Archive of 72,553 spectra (as of 2009-08-18), including all calibration spectra. FAST Observing Programs with Public Data Catalogs of FAST data: (id-sorted ASCII table) (id-sorted tab-separated ASCII table) (RA-sorted ASCII table) (RA-sorted tab-separated ASCII table) View Sky Coverage of FAST Public Archive View Observing logs by date Find out what the header keywords mean
On Mt. Hopkins:	FAST Users' Guide 60-inch Guider and Rotator Software Users' Manual Calculating Gain and Readout Noise FLWO Changelog (since 2001-10-31) UV Flooding Examples Changing from FAST I to FAST II FAST Dewar fill sheets FAST Instrument Hardware Change Notes

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