Various NOTCam documentation

Observer's Guides

• NOTCam User's Guide
• NOTCam Spectroscopy pages
• NOTCam Cookbook (for the observer)
• Spectroscopy OBs observed manually
  
  

Instrument performance

• SWIR3 - The new Science Array (general performance)
• SWIR2 - The Science Grade Array (general performance)
• SWIR1 - The Engineering Grade Array (general performance)
• Zeropoints, backgrounds, limiting magnitude, photometric scatter etc.
  
  
• NOTCam darks - a summary (2011)
• Focus shift with wavelength (2014)
• KDP test report (2016)

Upgrades

• User Requirements for the new Controller and Data Acquisition System, Jun 2012, PDF document.
• New Z and Y filters, Mar 2011, Internal Report.
• NOTCam readout modes , Mar 2010, PDF document.
• NOTCam new clock-boards, 2010, Internal Report.
• New Science Array (SWIR3) commissioning , 2007, Internal Report.
• NOTCam Array Electronics upgrade, 2007, Internal Report.
• First Science Array (SWIR2) commissioning , 2005, Internal Report.
• Spectroscopic mode commissioning , 2003, Internal Report.

Calibration

• Calibration Plan v2.0 (2013, draft, pdf file)
• Calibration Plan v0.6 (2006, draft, ps file)
  
  

Software and data format

• New FITS format and headers (valid from Jan-2006)
• FITS header information (valid for data from before Jan-2006)
• NOTCam BIAS - the data acquisition software (Apr-2006, J. Klougart)
  
  

Presentations at NOT Council/STC meetings

• NOTCam as a test bed for NTE (Apr 2015, A.A. Djupvik)
• NOTCam - recent developments (Nov 2010, A.A. Djupvik)
• Observing in the IR with the NOT (May 2009, A.A. Djupvik)
• NOTCam and its new Science Array (Apr 2008, A.A. Djupvik)
• NIR imaging with NOTCam (Apr 2007, A.A. Djupvik)

Reports

• Abbott, T.M.C., Aspin, C., Sørensen, A.N., Nørregaard, P., Andersen, J., Andersen, M.I., van der Bliek, N.S., Clasen, J.W., Cox, G.C., Klougart, J., Larsen, H.H., Michaelsen, N., Noel, B., Olofsson, G., Perez, C., Schwarz, H. SWIR at the Nordic Optical Telescope: NOTCam 2000, SPIE meeting proceedings #4008 (gzipped PDF).
• Abbott, T.M.C. NOTCam commissioning, Summer 2001 September 2001, Status report to STC .
• Aspin, C. Status reports 1996-1999
• Atad, E. NOTCam Optical Design April 1997, postscript file
• Cox, G. Heat Load from the Internal NOTCam Motor Wires March 1998, NOT Internal Report, postscript file
• Cox, G. Review of NOTCam Bearings Aug 2004 Technical report (.pdf)
• Kaas, A.A. NOTCam commissioning, Oct-01 to Apr-02 April 2002, Status report to the NOT Council .
• Noël, B. Installing the superinsulation blanket on NOTCam. Description and recommendations. , 1999, IJAF technical reports
• Sørensen, A.N. NOTCam: Vacuum and cryogenic characterization June 2000, IJAF technical report #6 (gzipped postscript).