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Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope
Julia J. Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence +14
Hector will be the new massively-multiplexed integral field spectroscopy (IFS) instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Australia and the next main dark-time instrume…
Optical designs for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Telescope
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham
Optical designs are presented for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) telescope. The adopted baseline design is a prime focus telescope with a segmented primary of 11.25m ape…
Very fast transmissive spectrograph designs for highly multiplexed fiber spectroscopy
Will Saunders
Very fast (f/1.2 and f/1.35) transmissive spectrograph designs are presented for Hector and MSE. The designs have 61mm x 61mm detectors, 4 or 5 camera lenses of aperture less than…
An all-silica three-element wide-field corrector for GMT
Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Sean Lin +2
We present an alternative Corrector-ADC design for GMT. The design consists of just 3 silica lenses, of maximum size 1.51m, and includes only a single low-precision asphere for 20'…
The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe
Alan McConnachie, Carine Babusiaux, Michael Balogh +173
MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrograph…
SPOKES: an End-to-End Simulation Facility for Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys
B. Nord, A. Amara, A. Refregier +15
The nature of dark matter, dark energy and large-scale gravity pose some of the most pressing questions in cosmology today. These fundamental questions require highly precise measu…