TY - GEN
T1 - MANIFEST
T2 - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III
AU - Saunders, Will
AU - Colless, Matthew
AU - Saunders, Ian
AU - Hopkins, Andrew
AU - Goodwin, Michael
AU - Heijmans, Jeroen
AU - Brzeski, Jurek
AU - Farrell, Tony
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - MANIFEST (the Many Instrument Fiber System) is a proposed fiber-positioner for the GMT, capable of feeding other instruments as needed. It is a simple, flexible and modular design, based on the AAO's Starbugs, the University of Sydney's Hexabundles, and extensive use of standard telecommunications fiber technology. Up to 2000 individually deployable fiber units are envisaged, with a wide variety of aperture types (single-aperture, image-slicing, IFU). MANIFEST allows (a) full use of the GMT's 20′ field-of-view, (b) a multiplexed IFU capability, (c) greatly increased spectral resolution via image-slicing, (d) efficient detector packing both spectrally and spatially, (e) the possibility of OH-suppression in the near-infrared. Together, these gains make GMT the most powerful of the ELT's for wide-field spectroscopy. It is intended that MANIFEST will form part of the GMT facility itself, available to any instrument able to make use of it.
AB - MANIFEST (the Many Instrument Fiber System) is a proposed fiber-positioner for the GMT, capable of feeding other instruments as needed. It is a simple, flexible and modular design, based on the AAO's Starbugs, the University of Sydney's Hexabundles, and extensive use of standard telecommunications fiber technology. Up to 2000 individually deployable fiber units are envisaged, with a wide variety of aperture types (single-aperture, image-slicing, IFU). MANIFEST allows (a) full use of the GMT's 20′ field-of-view, (b) a multiplexed IFU capability, (c) greatly increased spectral resolution via image-slicing, (d) efficient detector packing both spectrally and spatially, (e) the possibility of OH-suppression in the near-infrared. Together, these gains make GMT the most powerful of the ELT's for wide-field spectroscopy. It is intended that MANIFEST will form part of the GMT facility itself, available to any instrument able to make use of it.
KW - OH suppression
KW - Starbugs
KW - extremely large telescopes
KW - fiber positioners
KW - fiber spectroscopy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956743316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.856353
DO - 10.1117/12.856353
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780819482259
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III
Y2 - 27 June 2010 through 2 July 2010
ER -