MAVIS: Imager and Spectrograph

Simon Ellis; Ross Zhelem; Anthony Horton; Timothy Chin; Nuwanthika Fernando; Max Hewlett; Nuria Lorente; Summer Luo; Richard McDermid; Helen McGregor; David Robertson; Christian Schwab; Scott Smedley; Lew Waller; Jessica Zheng; Johan Kosmalski; Giovanni Cresci; Trevor Mendel; Andrea Bianco; David Brodrick; Jennifer Burgess; Dionne Haynes; Davide Greggio; Robert Content; Francois Rigaut

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MAVIS: Imager and Spectrograph

Simon Ellis^*, Ross Zhelem, Anthony Horton, Timothy Chin, Nuwanthika Fernando, Max Hewlett, Nuria Lorente, Summer Luo, Richard McDermid, Helen McGregor, David Robertson, Christian Schwab, Scott Smedley, Lew Waller, Jessica Zheng, Johan Kosmalski, Giovanni Cresci, Trevor Mendel, Andrea Bianco, David BrodrickJennifer Burgess, Dionne Haynes, Davide Greggio, Robert Content, Francois Rigaut

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MAVIS, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph, is the world's first facility-grade visible MCAO instrument, currently in the final design phase for ESO's VLT. The AO system will feed an imager and an integral field spectrograph, with 50% sky coverage at the Galactic pole. MAVIS has unique angular resolution and sensitivity at visible wavelengths, and is highly complementary to both JWST and ELTs. We describe both instruments in detail and the broad range of science cases enabled by them. The imager will be diffraction-limited in V, with 7.36 mas per pixel covering a 30” FOV. A set of at least 5 broad-band, 3 medium-band and 16 narrow-band filters will provide imaging from u to z. The spectrograph uses an advanced image slicer with a selectable spatial sampling of 25 or 50 mas to provide integral field spectroscopy over a FOV of 2.5^′′ × 3.6^′′, or 5^′′ × 7.2^′′. The spectrograph has two identical arms each covering half the FOV. Four interchangeable grisms allow spectroscopy with R=4,000 to R=15,000, from 370-935 nm.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
Editors	Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara, Joel R. Vernet
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510675155
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018606
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 16 Jun 2024 → 21 Jun 2024

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	13096
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	16/06/24 → 21/06/24

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Ellis, S., Zhelem, R., Horton, A., Chin, T., Fernando, N., Hewlett, M., Lorente, N., Luo, S., McDermid, R., McGregor, H., Robertson, D., Schwab, C., Smedley, S., Waller, L., Zheng, J., Kosmalski, J., Cresci, G., Mendel, T., Bianco, A., ... Rigaut, F. (2024). MAVIS: Imager and Spectrograph. In J. J. Bryant, K. Motohara, & J. R. Vernet (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X Article 130961B (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13096). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018606

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Ellis, S, Zhelem, R, Horton, A, Chin, T, Fernando, N, Hewlett, M, Lorente, N, Luo, S, McDermid, R, McGregor, H, Robertson, D, Schwab, C, Smedley, S, Waller, L, Zheng, J, Kosmalski, J, Cresci, G, Mendel, T, Bianco, A, Brodrick, D, Burgess, J, Haynes, D, Greggio, D, Content, R & Rigaut, F 2024, MAVIS: Imager and Spectrograph. in JJ Bryant, K Motohara & JR Vernet (eds), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X., 130961B, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 13096, SPIE, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024, Yokohama, Japan, 16/06/24. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018606

MAVIS: Imager and Spectrograph. / Ellis, Simon; Zhelem, Ross; Horton, Anthony et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X. ed. / Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara; Joel R. Vernet. SPIE, 2024. 130961B (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13096).

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