CRIRES User Manual
Doc. Number: ESO-254264
Doc. Version: P109.4
Issued on:
2021-12-01
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24 of 99
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3.2.3.1 Gas cells
The CRIRES science cases also demand specialized, highly accurate wavelength
calibration techniques. Therefore, another part of the upgrade is concerned with the
installation of novel IR absorption gas cells with multi-species gas fillings (NH
3
,
13
CH
4
, C
2
H
2
).
These gases provide a set of densely distributed absorption lines imprinted on the stellar
spectra in the
H
- and
K
-bands (see Figure 17). Note that the pipeline will not calculate the
wavelength solution based on the gas cell data;; this is left to the experienced user.
Figure 17: Absorption line spectrum of the new short gas cell (SGC) in the H and K bands
(top) and the N
2
O gas cell in the L and M bands (bottom). The FTS scan of both cells is
provided on the CRIRES webpages under 'Tools'.