IRMOS: The near-infrared multi-object spectrograph for the TMT

Eikenberry, S. S.; Andersen, David R.; Guzmán, R.; Bally, John; Cuevas, Salvador; Fletcher, Murray; Gardhouse, Rusty; Gavel, Don; Gonzalez, Anthony H.; Gruel, N.; Hamann, Fred; Hamner, Sam; Julian, Roger; Julian, Jeff; Koo, David C.; Lada, Elizabeth A.; Leckie, Brian; López, J. A.; Pelló, R.; Pérez, J. A.; Rambold, William; Román, C. J.; Sarajedini, Ata; Tan, Jonathan C.; Venn, Kim A.; Véran, Jean-Pierre; Ziegert, John C.

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“…MUSE and KMOS, now being built for the VLT, take these concepts to the next level, and we will see that AO-equipped ELTs will have proportionately wide fields of view and higher spatial resolution, putting pressure on instrument designers to respond. We now have many alternative concepts to fibre systems for cryogenic infrared multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) instruments on ELTs, such as EAGLE for the E-ELT [32] and IRMOS for the TMT [33]. The technologies which will be developed to select subfields, and analyse them spectrally, range from microrobots to MOEMS mirror arrays and precisionmachined or replicated reflective image slicers [34].…”

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Future technologies for optical and infrared telescopes and instruments

Cunningham

2009

Exp Astron

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The theme of this conference is the evolution of telescopes over the last 400 years. I present my view on what the major leaps of technology have been, and attempt to predict what new technologies could come along in the next 50 years to change the way we do astronomy and help us make new discoveries. Are we approaching a peak of innovation and discovery, and will this be followed by a slow decline? Or are there prospects for even further technology leaps and consequent new discoveries? Will global resource and financial crises bring an end to our great ambitions, or will we continue with bigger telescopes and more ambitious space observatories?

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Future technologies for optical and infrared telescopes and instruments

Cunningham

2009

Exp Astron

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“…that achieves diffraction-limited imaging integral field spectroscopy (Larkin et al, 2016), and 3) the Infrared Multi-Object spectrometer (0.8-2.5 µm) that acquires near-diffractionlimited imaging and spectroscopy over a 2 arcmin diameter field-of-view (Eikenberry et al, 2006). The GMT, with first light planned for 2020, will offer (1) the Visible Echelle Spectrograph (0.35-0.95 µm) with spectral resolving power from 25,000 to 120,000, well-suited for precision radial velocity observations (Szentgyorgyi et al, 2014), (2) the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph (0.35-1.1 µm) with 9 x 9 arc-minute field of view obtained at moderate-spectral resolution (DePoy et al, 2012), (3) the Near-IR IFU and AO imager (0.9-2.5 µm) with 8 to 50 milliarcsec spatial scales feeding an R=5000…”

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The Future Exploration of Saturn

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Saturn in the 21st Century

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Despite the lack of another Flagship-class mission like Cassini-Huygens, prospects for the future exploration of Saturn are nevertheless encouraging. Both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are exploring the possibilities of focused interplanetary missions to (1) drop one or more in-situ atmospheric entry probes into Saturn and (2) explore the satellites Titan and Enceladus which would provide opportunities for both in-situ investigations of Saturn's magnetosphere and detailed remote-sensing observations of Saturn. Additionally, a new generation of powerful Earth-based and near-Earth telescopes with advanced instrumentation spanning the ultraviolet to the far-infrared promise to provide systematic observations of Saturn's seasonally-changing composition and thermal structure, cloud structures and wind fields. Finally, new advances in amateur telescopic observations brought on largely by the availability of low-cost powerful computers, low-noise, large-format cameras, and attendant sophisticated software promise to provide regular observations of Saturn in remarkable detail. This document is of particular importance as it has been adopted by NASA's Science Mission Directorate as the primary guiding document for the Directorate's strategic planning of planetary exploration for the current decadal period of 2013-2023. In our discussion, we provide additional details on the major science priorities, especially regarding the need to make measurements diagnostic of the planet's origin and evolution. 14.2.1 Priority Science Goals of the Cassini Grand Finale Mission In orbit since July 1, 2004, the Cassini Orbiter began its final phase of science investigations in December, 2016. Entitled the Grand Finale-as it concludes with a 34km/s plunge into Saturn on September 15, 2017-the Cassini Orbiter will spend its final five months circling the planet in a highly elliptical, highly inclined orbit, diving 22 times inside the innermost rings to fly swiftly (> 36 km/s) past the planet just ~2,000 km above its equatorial cloud tops (Fig. 14.1). These novel orbits are achieved by a gravitational kick from Titan in April 2017 that jumps the spacecraft's periapsis (i.e., the closest point to Saturn's center) from just outside Saturn's main rings some 87,000 km above the cloudtops into the clear gap between the innermost D ring and the upper atmosphere. The unique observational geometry allows Cassini to gather unprecedented close-up views of the planet and its rings, while also obtaining in-situ samples of gases, dust, plasma, and magnetic fields. Altogether, the unique data collected during the Grand Finale phase addresses key issues about Saturn, its rings, and its innermost plasma environment similar to those being addressed by the Juno mission at Jupiter, thus promising new synergistic insights into how each formed, evolved, and works today.

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“…The 16 d-IFU spectrographs (each including its own collimator, grating, camera and 1k × 1k HgCdTe detector) are housed in four different cryostats. The IRMOS concept 13 proposed by the U. Florida/HIA team (IRMOS-UF) has been driven by a "minimal R&D" approach in which most of the elements of the design are based on proven technologies and systems. IRMOS-UF has two basic subsystems: a MOAO system for adaptive corrections and a science backend for target selection and integral field spectroscopy.…”

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Instrument concepts and scientific opportunities for TMT

Crampton

Simard

2006

SPIE Proceedings

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The Thirty-Meter Telescope Project (TMT) aims to build a diffraction-limited, 30-m segmented mirror telescope with first light set for 2014 and first science operations for 2015. The telescope, its comprehensive adaptive optics architecture and its instruments are being designed as an end-to-end system in order to meet the demands of AO-based science. The TMT Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) has defined challenging scientific programs ranging from the tomographic exploration of the cosmic web of intergalactic hydrogen to extrasolar planets and has identified a suite of instrumental capabilities that will be required to carry them out during the first decade of TMT operation. The TMT instrumentation program has just completed a feasibility phase in which seven instrument concepts were studied. These studies have yielded innovative concepts that stretch the TMT discovery space and system-wide performance, and they are helping define detailed requirements for the telescope and observatory subsystems. Highlights from these studies are summarized and discussed.

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IRMOS: The near-infrared multi-object spectrograph for the TMT

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Future technologies for optical and infrared telescopes and instruments

Future technologies for optical and infrared telescopes and instruments

The Future Exploration of Saturn

Instrument concepts and scientific opportunities for TMT

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