Spectroastrometric Study of Ro-vibrational CO Emission from the Herbig Ae Star HD 179218 with ISHELL on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Najita, Joan R.; Brittain, Sean D.; Carr, John S.
United States
Abstract
We present analysis of commissioning M-band data acquired with the infrared echelle spectrograph (iSHELL) on NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility. In this paper we describe the delivered performance of the instrument for these M-band observations and the data reduction process. The feasibility of using iSHELL for spectro-astrometry is tested on the Herbig Ae/Be star HD 179218 and we show that sub-milliarcsecond fidelity is achievable..