@inproceedings{cfa01f53612e4a84b79095f5f65b4e73,
title = "The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Overview of innovative science programs",
abstract = "IRIS (InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) is a first light near-infrared diffraction limited imager and integral field spectrograph being designed for the future Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). IRIS is optimized to perform astronomical studies across a significant fraction of cosmic time, from our Solar System to distant newly formed galaxies (Barton et al. [1]). We present a selection of the innovative science cases that are unique to IRIS in the era of upcoming space and ground-based telescopes. We focus on integral field spectroscopy of directly imaged exoplanet atmospheres, probing fundamental physics in the Galactic Center, measuring 104 to 1010 M supermassive black hole masses, resolved spectroscopy of young star-forming galaxies (1 < 5) and first light galaxies (6 < 12), and resolved spectroscopy of strong gravitational lensed sources to measure dark matter substructure. For each of these science cases we use the IRIS simulator (Wright et al. [2], Do et al. [3]) to explore IRIS capabilities. To highlight the unique IRIS capabilities, we also update the point and resolved source sensitivities for the integral field spectrograph (IFS) in all five broadband filters (Z, Y, J, H, K) for the finest spatial scale of 0.004{"} per spaxel. We briefly discuss future development plans for the data reduction pipeline and quicklook software for the IRIS instrument suite.",
keywords = "Adaptive Optics, Data Simulator, Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes, Infrared Imaging, Infrared Spectroscopy, Integral Field Spectrographs",
author = "Wright, {Shelley A.} and Larkin, {James E.} and Moore, {Anna M.} and Tuan Do and Luc Simard and Mat{\'e} Adamkovics and Lee Armus and Barth, {Aaron J.} and Elizabeth Barton and Hope Boyce and Jeffrey Cooke and Patrick Cote and Timothy Davidge and Brent Ellerbroek and Ghez, {Andrea M.} and Liu, {Michael C.} and Lu, {Jessica R.} and MacIntosh, {Bruce A.} and Shude Mao and Christian Marois and Matthias Schoeck and Ryuji Suzuki and Tan, {Jonathan C.} and Tommaso Treu and Lianqi Wang and Jason Weiss",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V ; Conference date: 22-06-2014 Through 26-06-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2055599",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Ramsay, {Suzanne K.} and McLean, {Ian S.} and Hideki Takami",
booktitle = "Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V",
address = "United States",
}