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Instrument and Data References

When you publish your data, we would appreciate the following acknowledgement:

This paper uses data products produced by the OIR Telescope Data
Center, supported by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Please cite the appropriate instrument and data reduction paper, linked below:

Instrument	Instrument Reference	TDC Data Pipeline Reference
FAST	The FAST Spectrograph for the Tillinghast Telescope by Daniel Fabricant, Peter Cheimets, Nelson Caldwell, and John Geary, 1998 PASP, Vol. 110, Issue 743, pp. 79-85. [paper]	RoadRunner: An Automated Reduction System for Long Slit Spectroscopic Data by Susan P. Tokarz and John Roll, 1997 in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 125, 1997, Editors: Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne, p.140 [paper]
Hectospec	Hectospec, the MMT's 300 Optical Fiber-Fed Spectrograph by Fabricant, Daniel; Fata, Robert; Roll, John; Hertz, Edward; Caldwell, Nelson; Gauron, Thomas; Geary, John; McLeod, Brian; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew; Zajac, Joseph; Kurtz, Michael; Barberis, Jack; Bergner, Henry; Brown, Warren; Conroy, Maureen; Eng, Roger; Geller, Margaret; Goddard, Richard; Honsa, Michael; Mueller, Mark; Mink, Douglas; Ordway, Mark; Tokarz, Susan; Woods, Deborah; Wyatt, William; Epps, Harland; Dell'Antonio, Ian, 2005 PASP, Vol 117, Issue 838, pp. 1411-1434. [paper]	Automating Reduction of Multifiber Spectra from the MMT Hectospec and Hectochelle by Mink, D. J.; Wyatt, W. F.; Caldwell, N.; Conroy, M. A.; Furesz, G.; Tokarz, S. P., 2007 in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 376, proceedings of the conference held 15-18 October 2006 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Edited by Richard A. Shaw, Frank Hill and David J. Bell., p.249 [paper]
Hectochelle	Hectochelle: High resolution multiobject spectroscopy at the MMT by Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, 2006 New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 50, Issue 4-5, p. 326-328. [paper]	Automating Reduction of Multifiber Spectra from the MMT Hectospec and Hectochelle by Mink, D. J.; Wyatt, W. F.; Caldwell, N.; Conroy, M. A.; Furesz, G.; Tokarz, S. P., 2007 in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 376, proceedings of the conference held 15-18 October 2006 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Edited by Richard A. Shaw, Frank Hill and David J. Bell., p.249 [paper]
MegaCam	The MMT Megacam by McLeod, Brian; Geary, John; Ordway, Mark; Amato, Steven; Conroy, Maureen; Gauron, Thomas, 2006 in Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005, edited by Jenna E. Beletic, University of Chicago, U.S.A.; James W. Beletic, Rockwell Scientific Company, U.S.A.; Paola Amico, European Southern Observatory, Chile. LXIV, 771p. 1-4020-4329-5. Berlin: Springer Dordrecht, 2006, p.337 [paper]	Coping with data deluge: a data system for the Megacam by Conroy, Maureen A.; Roll, John B.; Wyatt, William F.; Mink, Douglas J.; McLeod, Brian A., 1998 in Proc. SPIE Vol. 3355, p. 264-274, Optical Astronomical Instrumentation, edited by Sandro D'Odorico. [paper]
MMIRS	MMT and Magellan infrared spectrograph by McLeod, Brian A.; Fabricant, Daniel; Geary, John; Martini, Paul; Nystrom, George; Elston, Richard; Eikenberry, Stephen S.; Epps, Harland, 2004 in Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by Alan F. M. Moorwood and Iye Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5492, pp. 1306-1313 [paper]	Data reduction pipeline for the MMT Magellan Infrared Spectrograph by Chilingarian, Igor; Brown, Warren; Fabricant, Daniel; McLeod, Brian; Roll,John; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew. 2012 presented at ADASS XXII, November 4-8, 2012 at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
SWIRC	Smithsonian Widefield Infrared Camera by Brown, Warren R.; McLeod, Brian A.; Geary, John C.; Bowsher, Emily C., 2008 in Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, edited by McLean, Ian S.; Casali, Mark M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7014, pp. 70142P-70142P-7 (2008). [paper]	none yet
TRES	Precision Radial Velocities for the Kepler Era by Szentgyorgyi, A. H.; Furész, G. 2007 in The 3rd Mexico-Korea Conference on Astrophysics: Telescopes of the Future and San Pedro M´artir, edited by S. Kurtz, vol. 28 of Rev. Mexicana Astron. Astrofis. Conf. Ser., 129 [paper]	Data Pipelines for the TRES Echelle Spectrograph by Mink, Douglas J., 2011 in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 442, Edited by I. Evans, A. Accomazzi, D. Mink, and A. Rots, San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2011, in press. [paper]

If you use redshifts produced by the pipeline or using RVSAO, please cite:

RVSAO 2.0: Digital Redshifts and Radial Velocities
by Kurtz, Michael J. and Mink, Douglas J., 1998 PASP, Vol. 110, Issue 750, pp. 934-977.