IRMS Sensitivities

Sensitivity curves showing the estimated S/N ratio for spectroscopy
with a total integration time of 5 hours are shown below:




Parameters
IRMS Ref.
Effective Collecting Area 630 m2
Pixel Scale 0.06 arcsec/pix
(=60mas)
1
2
Strel Ratio N/A
Diffraction Limit 2.44λ/D
0.021″@J
0.027″@H
0.036″@K
2
Ensquared Energy
inside Aperture
w/NFIRAOS wide-field mode
@ Center of FOV
0.70@J
0.75@H
0.80@K
@ 2' edge
0.43@J
0.52@H
0.6@K
Slit width=160mas
0.65@J
0.73@H
0.80@K
AO
Imaging Thruput 0.348@J
0.340@H
0.255@K
2
3
Spectrograph Thruput 0.2262@J
0.255@H
0.21@K
2
3
Readout Noise 5 e- (H2RG) 2
3
Dark 0.03 e-/s (H2RG) 1
3
Background Sky brightness
@MaunaKea
J=16.1 mag
H=13.8 mag
K=14.8 mag
1
Exposure Time 18000s (900s x 20) 1
Spectral Resolution 5000 2

Reference
1: TMT Instrumentation Handbook (2010)
2: IRIS SPIE Paper(2010)
3: MOFIRE DDR Report (2007)