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SpeX

(a medium-resolution infrared spectrograph)

SpeX is a 0.7-5.3 micron spectrograph installed on the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in 2000 and upgraded in 2014.

Another unrelated instrument is called SPEX: the Spectropolarimeter for Planetary Exploration, designed for spacecraft, e.g., for Mars or Jupiter missions.

(instrument,infrared,spectrograph)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility#SpeX
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~spex/
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/irtf.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003PASP..115..362R/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AAS...24120505B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017SPIE10565E..1CR/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy		  
0.7μm428THz1.8eVbeginSpeX
5.3μm57THz234meVendSpeX

Referenced by page:
IRTF
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