The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept

Michael J. Ireland; Stuart Barnes; David Cochrane; Matthew Colless; Peter Connor; Anthony Horton; Steve Gibson; Jon Lawrence; Sarah Martell; Peter McGregor; Tom Nicolle; Kathryn Nield; David Orr; J. Gordon Robertson; Stuart Ryder; Andrew Sheinis; Greg Smith; Nick Staszak; Julia Tims; Pascal Xavier; Peter Young; Jessica Zheng

doi:10.1117/12.925746

The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept

Michael J. Ireland^*, Stuart Barnes, David Cochrane, Matthew Colless, Peter Connor, Anthony Horton, Steve Gibson, Jon Lawrence, Sarah Martell, Peter McGregor, Tom Nicolle, Kathryn Nield, David Orr, J. Gordon Robertson, Stuart Ryder, Andrew Sheinis, Greg Smith, Nick Staszak, Julia Tims, Pascal XavierPeter Young, Jessica Zheng

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The Gemini High-Resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) will fill an important gap in the current suite of Gemini instruments. We will describe the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO)-led concept for GHOST, which consists of a multi-object, compact, high-efficiency, fixed-format, fiber-fed design. The spectrograph itself is a four-arm variant of the asymmetric white-pupil echelle Kiwispec spectrograph, Kiwisped, produced by Industrial Research Ltd. This spectrograph has an R4 grating and a 100mm pupil, and separate cross-disperser and camera optics for each of the four arms, carefully optimized for their respective wavelength ranges. We feed this spectrograph with a miniature lenslet-based IFU that sub-samples the seeing disk of a single object into 7 hexagonal sub-images, reformatting this into a slit with a second set of double microlenses at the spectrograph entrance with relatively little loss due to focal-ratio degradation. This reformatting enables high spectral resolution from a compact design that fits well within the relatively tight GHOST budget. We will describe our baseline 2-object R∼50,000 design with full wavelength coverage from the ultraviolet to the silicon cutoff, as well as the high-resolution single-object R∼75,000 mode.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925746
Publication status	Published - 2012
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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Ireland, M. J., Barnes, S., Cochrane, D., Colless, M., Connor, P., Horton, A., Gibson, S., Lawrence, J., Martell, S., McGregor, P., Nicolle, T., Nield, K., Orr, D., Robertson, J. G., Ryder, S., Sheinis, A., Smith, G., Staszak, N., Tims, J., ... Zheng, J. (2012). The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept. In Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV Article 844629 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8446). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925746

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The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept. / Ireland, Michael J.; Barnes, Stuart; Cochrane, David et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 2012. 844629 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8446).

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