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IGRINS-2 has been delivered to Gemini North in September 2023 and successfully completed the first telescope integration run in early October. Once the telescope integration and commissioning is completed, IGRINS-2 will be offered to the Gemini User Community. 

IGRINS-2 Overview

IGRINS-2 is a high-resolution near-infrared spectrograph (R~40,000; 1.49-2.46um), closely based on the original IGRINS (Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph). IGRINS-2 will become a Gemini North facility instrument, unlike IGRINS, which is a visiting instrument at Gemini South. 

After successfully completing design review, the IGRINS-2 project is currently in the Telescope Integratio Stage led by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) in Daejeon, Korea. We are aiming to complete IGRINS-2 commissioning in mid-2024 and offering it to the Gemini science community in late 2024. 

 

Science Cases

  • Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and their disks
  • Young planets and brown dwarfs
  • Binary systems
  • Galactic evolution
  • Interstellar Medium

 

Capabilities

All capabilities listed below are the goals and are subject to change.

  • Spectral Coverage: 1.49-1.80um (H-band) and 1.96-2.46 um (K-band)
  • Spectral resolving power: R~40,000
  • Slit size: 0.33" (W) x 4.94" (L)
  • Spectral Sampling: ~3 pixels
  • Spatial Sampling: ~0.1”/pixel

 

Instrument Design 

 

 


 

Timeline

First light was achieved in October 2023. 

 

IGRINS-2 Team

 

KASI​

 

  • Chan Park, Principal Investigator
  • Young Sam Yu, Project Manager
  • Heeyoung Oh, Systems Engineer
  • Yunjong Kim, Optical Engineer
  • Sanghyuk Kim, Mechanics Lead
  • Mechanics Team: Jae Sok Oh, Bi-Ho Jang, Jeong-Gyun Jang
  • Moo-Young Chun, Electronics Lead
  • Electronics Team: Ueejeong Jeong, Hyeon Cheol Seong, Young Sam Yu
  • Hye-In Lee, Software Engineer
  • Project Support in KASI: Sungho Lee, Jae-Joon Lee, In-Soo Yuk, Byeong-Gon Park, Narae Hwang
  • Project Support in UT: Cindy Brooks, Greg Mace, Dan Jaffe, Hanshin Lee, John Good
     

 

Gemini

  • Hwihyun Kim (GS), Project Manager
  • Ruben Diaz (GS), Project Sponsor
  • Brian Chinn (GS), Systems Engineer
  • John White (GN), Engineering Support
  • Eduardo Tapia (GN), Engineering Support
  • Siyi Xu (GN), Project Scientist
  • Hyewon Suh (GN), Project Scientist
  • Jennifer Miller (GN), Project SOS
  • Pablo Prado (GS), Project Support
  • Francisco Ramos (GS), Software Support

 

If you have any questions, please contact us at igrins2_science@noirlab.edu
 

Documents

Papers Describing aspects of IGRINS-2:

Design and development of the IGRINS-2 control software as a facility instrument of the Gemini observatory, Hye-In Lee, Francisco Ramos, Pablo Prado et al., 2022, SPIE, 12189

 

 

 

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The International Gemini Observatory  provides the astronomical communities in six participant countries with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that allocate observing time in proportion to each country's contribution. In addition to financial support, each country also contributes significant scientific and technical resources. The national research agencies that form the Gemini partnership include: the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Canadian National Research Council (NRC), the Chilean Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), the Brazilian Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Argentinean Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, and the Korea Astronomy and Space Institute (KASI). The observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. The NSF also serves as the executive agency for the international partnership.


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