Announcements
News
- February 2024: Call to join the Early Science Team (EST)
- April 2024: Early Science Team composition announced
Introduction
The IGRINS-2 System Verification observing run is planned for July 2024. The purpose of the run is to:
- perform end-to-end testing of the software, documentation, and operational procedures to prepare for instrument deployment (i.e. November IGRINS-2 Shared Risk Call for Fast Turnaround, Regular operations in 2025A and beyond); and
- provide an initial set of publicly available observations to showcase the instrument capabilities, the range of science cases, and inform the community in preparation for the call for proposals.
The International Gemini Observatory has allocated about 40 hours of engineering time for IGRINS-2 observations.
The Early Science Team (EST), which includes Gemini Observatory personnel and community representatives, will be responsible for developing the observations to take for the SV, reducing and analyzing the data, evaluating the observations, and presenting the results to support and promote the use of IGRINS-2 among the broader Gemini community. The EST is chosen in consultation with the Gemini Directorate, STAC, and the IGRINS-2 Instrument team.
Regular updates on the IGRINS-2 System Verification observation planning and results will be presented on this page. An expected timeline is provided below.
15 March 2024: Deadline for EST self-nomination.
5 April 2024: EST composition is announced.
May-June: SV Observing plan (with priority) is finalized (the EST tests the Integration Time Calculator and the Phase I Tool software; the SV team tests the Observing Tool). The Target list is released to the community.
July: Observations will be performed around 17-23 July. Description of the observations is released.
August: Raw data released. Data quality evaluation released.
September-October: Reduced data released.
November: IGRINS-2 will be offered in Shared Risk for Fast Turnaround proposals.
SV Team
Members of the Gemini community interested in joining the EST have applied using the self-nomination form at this link.
| IGRINS-2 SV team | Affiliation | Roles |
| Hyewon Suh | Gemini/NOIRLab | SV Lead |
| Emanuele Paolo (Ema) Farina | Gemini/NOIRLab | Deputy SV Lead |
| Elena Sabbi | Gemini/NOIRLab | Project Sponsor & Gemini Directorate Representative |
| Maria Laura Arias | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Early Science Team |
| Michael Connelley | University of Hawai'i | Early Science Team |
| Emily Deibert | Gemini/NOIRLab | Early Science Team |
| Zach Hartman | Gemini/NOIRLab | Early Science Team |
| Venu Kalari | Gemini/NOIRLab | Early Science Team |
| Megan Weiner Mansfield | University of Arizona | Early Science Team |
| Felipe Navarate | SOAR/NOIRLab | Early Science Team |
| Heeyoung Oh | KASI | Early Science Team |
| Dongwook Lim | Yonsei University | Early Science Team |
| Cicero Lu | Gemini/NOIRLab | Early Science Team |
| Federico Sestito | University of Victoria | Early Science Team |
| Bill Vacca | Gemini/NOIRLab | Early Science Team |
| Hyun-Jeong Kim | Kongju University | Data Reduction Software Support |
| Jae-Joon Lee | KASI | Data Reduction Software Support |
| Charlie Figura | Gemini/NOIRLab | Science Operations Support |
| Jen Miller | Gemini/NOIRLab | Science Operations Support |
| Hye-In Lee | Gemini/NOIRLab | Operations Software Support |
| Emma Kurz | Gemini/NOIRLab | Operations Software Support |
| Additional Support | Affiliation | Roles |
| Andy Adamson | Gemini/NOIRLab | Science Operations support |
| Kristin Chiboucas | Gemini/NOIRLab | SV Advisor |
| Zachary Hartman | Gemini/NOIRLab | Community Engagement |
| Kathleen Labrie | Gemini/NOIRLab | Data Reduction Software Advisor |
| Atsuko Nitta | Gemini/NOIRLab | Science Operations support |
| Chan Park | KASI | Instrument support |
| Chris Simpson | Gemini/NOIRLab | Data Reduction Software Advisor |
| Andy Stephens | Gemini/NOIRLab | Operations Software support |
IGRINS-2 science cases
Young Stellar Objects and their disks
Young planets and Brown Dwarfs
Binary Systems
Galactic Evolution
Interstellar medium
AGNs
Acknowledgment to include in papers using IGRINS-2 SV data
Please include the following acknowledgment in any paper that makes use of IGRINS-2 SV data, in addition to the general Gemini acknowledgment (see Section 8.2 here).
``This work used the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph 2 (IGRINS-2) developed and built by a collaboration between Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) and the International Gemini Observatory.''