ARNICA@TNG: Performance Assessment and Forecast for NICS
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This report describes the performance of the Arcetri near-infrared camera, ARNICA, mounted at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) during 1999. Since ARNICA's performance has been amply documented at other telescopes, here we emphasize aspects that are relevant to the new infrared camera-spectrometer NICS, such as camera alignment and spatial and derotator variation of the point-spread function and photometry. We also present estimates of the camera+atmosphere eeciency, sensitivity, and telescope emissivity, and compare them with values obtained at other telescopes.
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