The MANIFEST prototyping design study

Jonathan S. Lawrence; Sagi Ben-Ami; David M. Brown; Rebecca A. Brown; Scott Case; Steve Chapman; Vladimir Churilov; Matthew Colless; Robert Content; Darren Depoy; Ian Evans; Tony Farrell; Michael Goodwin; George Jacoby; Urs Klauser; Kyler Kuehn; Nuria P.F. Lorente; Slavko Mali; Jennifer Marshall; Rolf Muller; Vijay Nichani; Naveen Pai; Travis Prochaska; Will Saunders; Luke Schmidt; Keith Shortridge; Nicholas F. Staszak; Andrew Szentgyorgyi; Julia Tims; Minh V. Vuong; Lewis G. Waller; Ross Zhelem

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The MANIFEST prototyping design study

Jonathan S. Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David M. Brown, Rebecca A. Brown, Scott Case, Steve Chapman, Vladimir Churilov, Matthew Colless, Robert Content, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, George Jacoby, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P.F. Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Rolf MullerVijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Keith Shortridge, Nicholas F. Staszak, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Julia Tims, Minh V. Vuong, Lewis G. Waller, Ross Zhelem

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Abstract

MANIFEST is a facility multi-object fibre system for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which uses â € Starbug' fibre positioning robots. MANIFEST, when coupled to the telescope's planned seeing-limited instruments, GMACS, and G-CLEF, offers access to: larger fields of view; higher multiplex gains; versatile reformatting of the focal plane via IFUs; image-slicers; and in some cases higher spatial and spectral resolution. The Prototyping Design Study phase for MANIFEST, nearing completion, has focused on developing a working prototype of a Starbugs system, called TAIPAN, for the UK Schmidt Telescope, which will conduct a stellar and galaxy survey of the Southern sky. The Prototyping Design Study has also included work on the GMT instrument interfaces. In this paper, we outline the instrument design features of TAIPAN, highlight the modifications that will be necessary for the MANIFEST implementation, and provide an update on the MANIFEST/instrument interfaces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
Editors	Luc Simard, Christopher J. Evans, Hideki Takami
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510601956
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232412
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jun 2016 → 30 Jun 2016

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9908
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	26/06/16 → 30/06/16

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Lawrence, J. S., Ben-Ami, S., Brown, D. M., Brown, R. A., Case, S., Chapman, S., Churilov, V., Colless, M., Content, R., Depoy, D., Evans, I., Farrell, T., Goodwin, M., Jacoby, G., Klauser, U., Kuehn, K., Lorente, N. P. F., Mali, S., Marshall, J., ... Zhelem, R. (2016). The MANIFEST prototyping design study. In L. Simard, C. J. Evans, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI Article 99089O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9908). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232412

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The MANIFEST prototyping design study. / Lawrence, Jonathan S.; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Brown, David M. et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. ed. / Luc Simard; Christopher J. Evans; Hideki Takami. SPIE, 2016. 99089O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9908).

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