TY - GEN
T1 - MANIFEST instrument concept and related technologies
AU - Goodwin, Michael
AU - Brzeski, Jurek
AU - Case, Scott
AU - Colless, Matthew
AU - Farrell, Tony
AU - Gers, Luke
AU - Gilbert, James
AU - Heijmans, Jeroen
AU - Hopkins, Andrew
AU - Lawrence, Jon
AU - Miziarski, Stan
AU - Monnet, Guy
AU - Muller, Rolf
AU - Saunders, Will
AU - Smith, Greg
AU - Tims, Julia
AU - Waller, Lew
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) has recently completed a feasibility study for a fiber-positioner facility proposed for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), called MANIFEST (the Many Instrument Fiber System). The MANIFEST facility takes full advantage of the wide-field focal plane to efficiently feed a number of focal instruments. It is a simple, flexible and modular design, based on the AAO's experience and R&D with starbugs, robotic positioners, and related fiber technologies for astronomical instrumentation. Up to 2000 individually deployable fiber units are envisaged, with a wide variety of aperture types (single-aperture, image- or pupil-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) the possibility of OH-suppression in the near-infrared. It is intended that MANIFEST will form part of the GMT facility itself, available to any instrument able to make use of it. In this paper, we report on the recent progress involving the science goals, instrument concept, related technologies and performances.
AB - The Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) has recently completed a feasibility study for a fiber-positioner facility proposed for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), called MANIFEST (the Many Instrument Fiber System). The MANIFEST facility takes full advantage of the wide-field focal plane to efficiently feed a number of focal instruments. It is a simple, flexible and modular design, based on the AAO's experience and R&D with starbugs, robotic positioners, and related fiber technologies for astronomical instrumentation. Up to 2000 individually deployable fiber units are envisaged, with a wide variety of aperture types (single-aperture, image- or pupil-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) the possibility of OH-suppression in the near-infrared. It is intended that MANIFEST will form part of the GMT facility itself, available to any instrument able to make use of it. In this paper, we report on the recent progress involving the science goals, instrument concept, related technologies and performances.
KW - Extremely large telescopes
KW - Fiber positioners
KW - OH suppression
KW - Starbugs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871969200&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.925125
DO - 10.1117/12.925125
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780819491473
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
T2 - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Y2 - 1 July 2012 through 6 July 2012
ER -