@inproceedings{9c5aff6ea5ec4397b7371069fa3de003,
title = "MANIFEST: A many-instrument fiber-positioning system for GMT",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "OH suppression, Starbugs, extremely large telescopes, fiber positioners, fiber spectroscopy",
author = "Will Saunders and Matthew Colless and Ian Saunders and Andrew Hopkins and Michael Goodwin and Jeroen Heijmans and Jurek Brzeski and Tony Farrell",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1117/12.856353",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819482259",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
number = "PART 1",
booktitle = "Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III",
edition = "PART 1",
note = "Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III ; Conference date: 27-06-2010 Through 02-07-2010",
}