TRES Echelle Spectrograph

Hardware

TRES (Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph) is a fiber-fed (sky+object+calibration spectrum) optical echelle spectrograph on the 1.5-meter Tillinghast telescope at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Fred L. Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona.

[TRES instrument page]

TRES instrument paper [Postscript (625K)] [Acrobat PDF (381K)]

TRES first light (June 2007)

TRES commissioning (September 2007)

Observing

TRES Processing

TRES Processing Pipeline (Setting up flattening files and aperture templates with tmakeref)
2010 ADASS Paper on TRES Quicklook and Pipeline
Mink, D. 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, p. 305.
Getting IRAF TRES Processing Software
TRES IRAF Package
ThAr Calibration Spectrum
ThAr Calibration Line List
Current Status
Perry Berlind's TRES Showcase

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Modified 2012-May-18 by Jessica Mink