Publications (13)
4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope
Roelof S. de Jong, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Cristina Chiappini +82
The 4MOST consortium is currently halfway through a Conceptual Design study for ESO with the aim to develop a wide-field (>3 square degree, goal >5 square degree), high-multiplex (…
A SiC TMA GLAO design for PLT?
Will Saunders, Jon S. Lawrence, John W. V. Storey +1
A 'PILOT-Like Telescope' is likely to have differences in science goals to the original PILOT. Furthermore, our understanding of the environmental conditions at Dome C has changed…
Multicore fibre photonic lanterns for precision radial velocity science
Itandehui Gris-Sánchez, Dionne M. Haynes, Katjana Ehrlich +2
Envisioning more compact and cost accessible astronomical instruments is now possible with existing photonic technologies like specialty optical fibres, photonic lanterns and ultra…
NAIR: Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through photonic Reformatting
Robert J. Harris, Jan Tepper, John J. Davenport +11
The project "Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through photonic Reformatting" is a DFG-funded collaboration to exploit the recognized potential of photonics solutions for a radica…
Deployable Payloads with Starbug
Andrew McGrath, Roger Haynes
We explore the range of wide field multi-object instrument concepts taking advantage of the unique capabilities of the Starbug focal plane positioning concept. Advances to familiar…
Astronomical photonics in the context of infrared interferometry and high-resolution spectroscopy
Lucas Labadie, Jean-Philippe Berger, Nick Cvetojevic +9
We review the potential of Astrophotonics, a relatively young field at the interface between photonics and astronomical instrumentation, for spectro-interferometry. We review some…
GNOSIS: the first instrument to use fibre Bragg gratings for OH suppression
Christopher Q. Trinh, Simon C. Ellis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +20
GNOSIS is a prototype astrophotonic instrument that utilizes OH suppression fibres consisting of fibre Bragg gratings and photonic lanterns to suppress the 103 brightest atmospheri…
The origin of [Fe II] emission in NGC 4151
James E. H. Turner, Jeremy Allington-Smith, Scott Chapman +5
The centre of NGC 4151 has been observed in the J-band with the SMIRFS integral field unit (IFU) on the UK Infrared Telescope. A map of [Fe II] emission is derived, and compared wi…
The Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) for Subaru Telescope
Masahiko Kimura, Toshinori Maihara, Fumihide Iwamuro +39
Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) is the first near-infrared instrument with a wide field of view capable of acquiring spectra simultaneously from up to 400 objects. It has be…
Advances in infrared and imaging fibres for astronomical instrumentation
Roger Haynes, Pam McNamara, Jackie Marcel +1
Optical fibres have already played a huge part in ground based astronomical instrumentation, however, with the revolution in photonics currently taking place new fibre technologies…
The Potsdam MRS Spectrograph - heritage of MUSE and the impact of cross-innovation in the process of technology transfer
Benito Moralejo, Martin M. Roth, Philippe Godefroy +5
After having demonstrated that an IFU, attached to a microscope rather than to a telescope, is capable of differentiating complex organic tissue with spatially resolved Raman spect…
PRAXIS: low thermal emission high efficiency OH suppressed fibre spectrograph
Robert Content, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Simon Ellis +12
PRAXIS is a second generation instrument that follows on from GNOSIS, which was the first instrument using fibre Bragg gratings for OH background suppression. The Bragg gratings re…
Multiple object and integral field near-infrared spectroscopy using fibers
Roger Haynes, David Lee, Jeremy Allington-Smith +10
We describe a new system for multiple object spectroscopy and integral field spectroscopy at near-infrared wavelengths using optical fibers. Both modes of the SMIRFS instrument hav…