Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST

Jon Lawrence; Sagi Ben-Ami; David M. Brown; Rebecca Brown; Scott Case; Timothy Chin; Matthew Colless; Adam Contos; Darren Depoy; Ian Evans; Daniel Faes; Tony Farrell; Peter Gillingham; Michael Goodwin; Sungwook E. Hong; Narae Hwang; Wong-Seob Jeong; Urs Klauser; Kyler Kuehn; Nuria Lorente; Slavko Mali; Jennifer Marshall; Helen McGregor; Rolf Muller; Rafael Millan-Gabet; Vijay Nichani; Claudia Oliveria; Henrique Ortolan; naveen Pai; Sung-Joon Park; Travis Prochaska; Will Saunders; Luke Schmidt; Aline Souza; Andrew Szentgyorgyi; Lew Waller; Ross Zhelem

doi:10.1117/12.2314178

13 July 2018 Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST

Jon Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David M. Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Matthew Colless, Adam Contos, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Daniel Faes, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Michael Goodwin, Sungwook E. Hong, Narae Hwang, Wong-Seob Jeong, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Vijay Nichani, Claudia Oliveria, Henrique Ortolan, naveen Pai, Sung-Joon Park, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Aline Souza, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem

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Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 10702A6 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314178
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

MANIFEST is a multi-object fibre facility for the Giant Magellan Telescope that uses ‘Starbug’ robots to accurately position fibre units across the telescope’s focal plane. MANIFEST, when coupled to the telescope’s planned seeinglimited instruments, offers access to larger fields of view; higher multiplex gains; versatile focal plane reformatting of the focal plane via integral-field-units; image-slicers; and in some cases higher spatial and spectral resolution. The TAIPAN instrument on the UK Schmidt Telescope is now close to science verification which will demonstrate the feasibility of the Starbug concept. We are now moving into the conceptual development phase for MANIFEST, with a focus on developing interfaces for the telescope and for the instruments.

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Jon Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David M. Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Timothy Chin, Matthew Colless, Adam Contos, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Daniel Faes, Tony Farrell, Peter Gillingham, Michael Goodwin, Sungwook E. Hong, Narae Hwang, Wong-Seob Jeong, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Helen McGregor, Rolf Muller, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Vijay Nichani, Claudia Oliveria, Henrique Ortolan, naveen Pai, Sung-Joon Park, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Aline Souza, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Lew Waller, and Ross Zhelem "Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST ", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 10702A6 (13 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314178

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