ULTIMATE: A deployable multiple integral field unit for Subaru

S. C. Ellis; Ross Zhelem; David Brown; Nicholas F. Staszak; Chris Lidman; David M. Nataf; Andrew R. Casey; Pascal Xavier; Andrew Sheinis; Peter Gillingham; Julia Tims; Jon Lawrence; Julia Bryant; Rob Sharp

doi:10.1117/12.2232107

ULTIMATE: A deployable multiple integral field unit for Subaru

S. C. Ellis^*, Ross Zhelem, David Brown, Nicholas F. Staszak, Chris Lidman, David M. Nataf, Andrew R. Casey, Pascal Xavier, Andrew Sheinis, Peter Gillingham, Julia Tims, Jon Lawrence, Julia Bryant, Rob Sharp

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ULTIMATE is an instrument concept under development at the AAO, for the Subaru Telescope, which will have the unique combination of ground layer adaptive optics feeding multiple deployable integral field units. This will allow ULTIMATE to probe unexplored parameter space, enabling science cases such as the evolution of galaxies at z ∼ 0:5 to 1.5, and the dark matter content of the inner part of our Galaxy. ULTIMATE will use Starbugs to position between 7 and 13 IFUs over a 14 × 8 arcmin field-of-view, pro- vided by a new wide-field corrector. All Starbugs can be positioned simultaneously, to an accuracy of better than 5 milli-arcsec within the typical slew-time of the telescope, allowing for very efficient re-configuration between observations. The IFUs will feed either the near-infrared nuMOIRCS or the visible/ near-infrared PFS spectrographs, or both. Future possible upgrades include the possibility of purpose built spectrographs and incorporating OH suppression using fibre Bragg gratings. We describe the science case and resulting design requirements, the baseline instrument concept, and the expected performance of the instrument.

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/10.1117/12.2232107
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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Ellis, S. C., Zhelem, R., Brown, D., Staszak, N. F., Lidman, C., Nataf, D. M., Casey, A. R., Xavier, P., Sheinis, A., Gillingham, P., Tims, J., Lawrence, J., Bryant, J., & Sharp, R. (2016). ULTIMATE: A deployable multiple integral field unit for Subaru. In L. Simard, C. J. Evans, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI Article 99081Q (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9908). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232107

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