IRTF Spectral Libraries Overview
IRTF Spectral Libraries Overview Spectral Library Extended Spectral Library

Overview

The IRTF Spectral Library is a collection of 0.8-5.0 um mostly stellar spectra observed at a resolving power of R ~ 2000 with the medium-resolution spectrograph, SpeX, at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea.
The IRTF Extended Spectral Library is a collection of 0.7-2.5 um mostly stellar spectra observed at a resolving power of R ~ 2000 with the medium-resolution spectrograph, SpeX, at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea. It expands the metallicity coverage of the original IRTF Spectral Library (Rayner et al. 2009) from mainly solar metallicity to -1.7 < [Fe/H] < 0.3.
If you use IRTF Spectral Libaries data, please cite the appropriate references for the IRTF Spectral Library and Villaume et al. (2017) for the IRTF Extended Spectral Library, as well as the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.26131/IRSA634.

Data Set Characteristics

Data ProductDescriptionData Access
Spectra IRTF/SpeX

Documentation

Spectral Library
Extended Spectral Library
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