
Capability Summary
- Total wavelength range = 360−1030 nm
Imaging
- 5.5’ square field of view
- 0.0807"/pixel spatial sampling
- broad and narrow band filters
Spectroscopy
- Resolutions
- 1260−8800 for 0.25" slit (depending on grating)
- 210−1460 for 1.5" slit (depending on grating)
- Modes
- Single Longslit
- Slit length of 5.5’
- Multi-Object Spectroscopy
- Using 5.5’ square masks
- Integral Field Unit (IFU), fiber fed, 0.2" sampling
- IFU-2, 7" x 5", 1000 spaxels
- IFU-R, 3.5" x 5", 500 spaxels
- Single Longslit
Guiding Options
- GMOS OIWFS
- PWFS2
Get the sensitivity
The GMOS were built by a collaboration of the Astronomy Technology Centre at the ROE, the University of Durham in the UK and the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada. GMOS-N was delivered in July 2001 with GMOS-S following in December 2002.
Announcements
Instrument Team
Instrument Scientist GN

Instrument Scientist GS
