ASTRONOMICAL AND LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS AT KITT PEAK USING PHOENIX
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1997
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Ohio State University
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A new high resolution ($\sim 0.02 cm^{-1}$) cryogenic echelle spectrograph called Phoenix has been constructed at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Phoenix has been used to record high resolution infrared spectra of the obscured carbon star IRC+10216 and the comet Hale-Bopp. Observations were made while Phoenix was attached at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.1 m telescope at Kitt Peak. Molecules targeted for observation included $C_{7}, C_{9}, C_{2}H_{6}, C_{2}H_{4}, C_{4}H_{2}$ and $C_{3}$. The design parameters and performance characteristics of Phoenix will be discussed along with some laboratory measurements.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo; Department of Chemistry, National Optical Astronomy Observatories; Department of chemistry, University of Waterloo