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The Gemini Telescopes are being built to exploit the splendid infrared sites of Mauna Kea in Hawaii and Cerro Pachon in Chile. Both telescopes are being designed to deliver 0.1 arcsecond images at 2.2 μm to the focal plane. This image size includes all tracking and enclosure effects. To exploit the superb infrared characteristics of the sites and telescopes we will require a new generation of IR instruments which will challenge both instrument designers and infrared array technologies.
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Mountain, M., Robertson, D. Infrared instruments for the Gemini 8-M telescopes. Exp Astron 3, 305–308 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00430181
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00430181