SAMI - A new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian telescope

Julia J. Bryant; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Jon Lawrence; Scott Croom; Lisa Fogarty; Michael Goodwin; Samuel Richards; Tony Farrell; Stan Miziarski; Ron Heald; Heath Jones; Steve Lee; Matthew Colless; Michael Birchall; Andrew M. Hopkins; Sarah Brough; Amanda E. Bauer

doi:10.1117/12.925115

SAMI - A new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian telescope

Julia J. Bryant^*, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Scott Croom, Lisa Fogarty, Michael Goodwin, Samuel Richards, Tony Farrell, Stan Miziarski, Ron Heald, Heath Jones, Steve Lee, Matthew Colless, Michael Birchall, Andrew M. Hopkins, Sarah Brough, Amanda E. Bauer

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SAMI (Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph) has the potential to revolutionise our understanding of galaxies, with spatially-resolved spectroscopy of large numbers of targets. It is the first on-sky application of innovative photonic imaging bundles called hexabundles, which will remove the aperture effects that have biased previous single-fibre multi-object astronomical surveys. The hexabundles have lightly-fused circular multi-mode cores with a covering fraction of ∼ 73%. The thirteen hexabundles in SAMI, each have 61 fibre cores, and feed into the AAOmega spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). SAMI was installed at the AAT in July 2011 and the first commissioning results prove the effectiveness of hexabundles on sky. A galaxy survey of several thousand galaxies to z ∼ 0.1 will begin with SAMI in mid-2012.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925115
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8446
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	1/07/12 → 6/07/12

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Bryant, J. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Lawrence, J., Croom, S., Fogarty, L., Goodwin, M., Richards, S., Farrell, T., Miziarski, S., Heald, R., Jones, H., Lee, S., Colless, M., Birchall, M., Hopkins, A. M., Brough, S., & Bauer, A. E. (2012). SAMI - A new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian telescope. In Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV Article 84460X (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8446). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925115

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Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 2012. 84460X (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8446).

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