Instrument and Data References

When you publish your data, we would appreciate the following acknowledgement:

This paper uses data products produced by the OIR Telescope Data
Center, supported by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Please cite the appropriate instrument and data reduction paper, linked below:

Instrument Instrument Reference TDC Data Pipeline Reference
FAST The FAST Spectrograph for the Tillinghast Telescope
by Daniel Fabricant, Peter Cheimets, Nelson Caldwell, and John Geary, 1998
PASP, Vol. 110, Issue 743, pp. 79-85. [paper]
RoadRunner: An Automated Reduction System for Long Slit Spectroscopic Data
by Susan P. Tokarz and John Roll, 1997
in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 125, 1997, Editors: Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne, p.140 [paper]
Hectospec Hectospec, the MMT's 300 Optical Fiber-Fed Spectrograph
by Fabricant, Daniel; Fata, Robert; Roll, John; Hertz, Edward; Caldwell, Nelson; Gauron, Thomas; Geary, John; McLeod, Brian; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew; Zajac, Joseph; Kurtz, Michael; Barberis, Jack; Bergner, Henry; Brown, Warren; Conroy, Maureen; Eng, Roger; Geller, Margaret; Goddard, Richard; Honsa, Michael; Mueller, Mark; Mink, Douglas; Ordway, Mark; Tokarz, Susan; Woods, Deborah; Wyatt, William; Epps, Harland; Dell'Antonio, Ian, 2005
PASP, Vol 117, Issue 838, pp. 1411-1434. [paper]
Automating Reduction of Multifiber Spectra from the MMT Hectospec and Hectochelle
by Mink, D. J.; Wyatt, W. F.; Caldwell, N.; Conroy, M. A.; Furesz, G.; Tokarz, S. P., 2007
in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 376, proceedings of the conference held 15-18 October 2006 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Edited by Richard A. Shaw, Frank Hill and David J. Bell., p.249 [paper]
Hectochelle Hectochelle: High resolution multiobject spectroscopy at the MMT
by Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, 2006
New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 50, Issue 4-5, p. 326-328. [paper]
Automating Reduction of Multifiber Spectra from the MMT Hectospec and Hectochelle
by Mink, D. J.; Wyatt, W. F.; Caldwell, N.; Conroy, M. A.; Furesz, G.; Tokarz, S. P., 2007
in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 376, proceedings of the conference held 15-18 October 2006 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Edited by Richard A. Shaw, Frank Hill and David J. Bell., p.249 [paper]
MegaCam The MMT Megacam
by McLeod, Brian; Geary, John; Ordway, Mark; Amato, Steven; Conroy, Maureen; Gauron, Thomas, 2006
in Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005, edited by Jenna E. Beletic, University of Chicago, U.S.A.; James W. Beletic, Rockwell Scientific Company, U.S.A.; Paola Amico, European Southern Observatory, Chile. LXIV, 771p. 1-4020-4329-5. Berlin: Springer Dordrecht, 2006, p.337 [paper]
Coping with data deluge: a data system for the Megacam
by Conroy, Maureen A.; Roll, John B.; Wyatt, William F.; Mink, Douglas J.; McLeod, Brian A., 1998
in Proc. SPIE Vol. 3355, p. 264-274, Optical Astronomical Instrumentation, edited by Sandro D'Odorico. [paper]
MMIRS MMT and Magellan infrared spectrograph
by McLeod, Brian A.; Fabricant, Daniel; Geary, John; Martini, Paul; Nystrom, George; Elston, Richard; Eikenberry, Stephen S.; Epps, Harland, 2004
in Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by Alan F. M. Moorwood and Iye Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5492, pp. 1306-1313 [paper]
Data reduction pipeline for the MMT Magellan Infrared Spectrograph
by Chilingarian, Igor; Brown, Warren; Fabricant, Daniel; McLeod, Brian; Roll,John; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew. 2012
presented at ADASS XXII, November 4-8, 2012 at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
SWIRC Smithsonian Widefield Infrared Camera
by Brown, Warren R.; McLeod, Brian A.; Geary, John C.; Bowsher, Emily C., 2008
in Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, edited by McLean, Ian S.; Casali, Mark M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7014, pp. 70142P-70142P-7 (2008). [paper]
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TRES Precision Radial Velocities for the Kepler Era
by Szentgyorgyi, A. H.; Furész, G. 2007
in The 3rd Mexico-Korea Conference on Astrophysics: Telescopes of the Future and San Pedro M´artir, edited by S. Kurtz, vol. 28 of Rev. Mexicana Astron. Astrofis. Conf. Ser., 129 [paper]
Data Pipelines for the TRES Echelle Spectrograph
by Mink, Douglas J., 2011
in
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 442, Edited by I. Evans, A. Accomazzi, D. Mink, and A. Rots, San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2011, in press. [paper]

If you use redshifts produced by the pipeline or using RVSAO, please cite:

RVSAO 2.0: Digital Redshifts and Radial Velocities
by Kurtz, Michael J. and Mink, Douglas J., 1998 PASP, Vol. 110, Issue 750, pp. 934-977.