"Performance and Results of NIRSPEC on the Keck Telescope"

Ian S. McLean, Professor
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
Director, Infrared Imaging Detector Lab

Abstract:
It is almost 3 years ago to the day that NIRSPEC obtained first light on the
Keck II 10-meter telescope. The instrument is a cryogenic echelle
spectrometer for the near infrared and is one of the most heavily used Keck
instruments. I will briefly review its properties and the challenges faced
in building it. I will also describe some of its most interesting scientific
achievements, with an emphasis on my own  applications to a Brown Dwarf
Spectroscopic Survey.