Karl Vyhmeister
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification
Introduction
This article describes design and observation results of the SEDM spectrograph. The instrument was designed for automated classification of transient astronomical events like supernovae. It has been in operation at the Palomar 60- inch telescope and uses 2 large area PIXIS cameras for photometric and spectroscopic detection.
