Abstract
We are exploring instrumental concepts of Near and Mid InfraRed (NIR, MIR) wide field camera-spectrographs for a 2 m-class telescope at Antarctica. Scientific drivers are star formation and very low mass objects. Both concepts pretend to exploit the unique features of Dome C: superb seeing, low temperature, improved IR transmission and reduced sky background. Two preliminary concepts are presented here. The NIR instrument would cover the wavelength range 0.97–5.0 μ m and would be optimized for the K, L and M bands. The MIR instrument would observe in the range 7–30 μ m and would be specifically designed to exploit the extended portion of the Q window (20+ μ m).
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