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most citedThe SuperCam Infrared Spectrometer for the Perseverance Rover of the Mars2020 mission

57 citations · 123 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

MUSE-DARK IV. Comparing Dark Matter Densities to Star Formation Histories in 375 intermediate-z galaxies

B. I. Ciocan, N. F. Bouché, J. Fensch +5

(Abridged) Baryonic feedback is expected to transform cuspy dark-matter (DM) haloes into cores, but direct observational links between inner DM slopes and galaxy star-formation his…

astro-ph.IM2026

4MOST Low Resolution Spectrographs Characterization in Chile

Florence Laurent, Didier Boudon, Eric Daguise +14

4MOST, the 4m Multi Object Spectroscopic Telescope, is the optical, fibre-fed, MOS facility for the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. Its main science drivers…

astro-ph.IM2026

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: dispersing elements

Andrea Bianco, Michele Frangiamore, Anna Brucalassi +7

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a proposed 12-m class facility entirely dedicated to spectroscopic surveys, combining a high-multiplex multi-object spectrograph ope…

astro-ph.IM2026

WST, the wide-field spectroscopic telescope: progress on the design of the instruments

David Lee, Joel Vernet, Elizabeth George +46

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope is a proposed new facility that will provide a transformational gain in spectroscopic survey capability over existing facilities. The WS…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESO-VLT BlueMUSE instrument - Conceptual Design for Phase A

Florence Laurent, Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud +23

BlueMUSE is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The project is now enter…

astro-ph.IM2026

WST -- Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: The Next Leap in Wide-field Spectroscopy

Roland Bacon, Olga Bellido, Philippe Dierickx +52

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a dedicated 12-m spectroscopic survey facility designed to address some of the most important questions in astrophysic…

astro-ph.IM2026

Guiding Design Choices for Wide-Field IFS: Trade-Offs Between Replication and Complexity for WST

C. Cudennec, A. Jeanneau, R. Bacon +7

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a proposed 12-meter segmented facility optimized for seeing- and Ground Layer Adaptive Optics-limited observations in the visible an…

astro-ph.IM2026

Motorized Mount for the 3-DoF Folding Mirror 2 of the VLT's BlueMUSE Instrument

Gloria Mellinand, Diane Chapuis, Malak Galal +10

BlueMUSE is a blue-optimized, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The project is now fully enter…

astro-ph.IM2026

Design and Testing of the Motorized 2-DoF Folding Mirror 1 for the VLT BlueMUSE Instrument

Gloria Mellinand, Diane Chapuis Kerouanton, Malak Galal +9

BlueMUSE is a blue-optimized, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The project is now fully enter…

astro-ph.IM2026

IFS spectrograph designs for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: Architecture and performance gains from curved sensors

Corentin Cudennec, Alexandre Jeanneau, Roland Bacon +2

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a proposed 12-meter segmented facility optimized for seeing limited observations in the visible and designed to operate both a high-…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

MUSE-DARK-II: 3D morpho-kinematic modelling of lensed galaxies. Tully-Fisher relation of star-forming galaxies

Alexandre Jeanneau, Johan Richard, Nicolas F. Bouché +5

In a series of papers on lensed kinematics, we seek to combine the sensitivity of 3D forward modelling to low signal-to-noise ratio outskirts with the enhanced spatial resolution o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

MUSE-DARK-I: Dark matter halo properties of intermediate-z star-forming galaxies

B. I. Ciocan, N. F. Bouché, J. Fensch +5

[Abridged] We analyse the dark matter (DM) halo properties of 127 0.3<z<1.5 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) down to low stellar masses (8<log(Mstar/Msun)<11), using data from the MUSE…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: characterization of two VPHG prototypes based on dichromated gelatin and photopolymer recording materials

Alexandre Jeanneau, Andrea Bianco, Andrew Clawson +8

Volume-phase holographic gratings (VPHGs) are widely used in astronomical spectrographs due to their adaptability and high diffraction efficiency. Most VPHGs in operation use dichr…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design

Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud, Florence Laurent +47

BlueMUSE is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). With an optimised transmission…

astro-ph.IM2024

WST -- Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: addressing the instrumentation challenges of a new 12m class telescope dedicated to widefield Multi-object and Integral Field Spectroscopy

David Lee, Joel D. R. Vernet, Roland Bacon +23

WST - Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: We summarise the design challenges of instrumentation for a proposed 12m class Telescope that aims to provide a large (>2.5 square degree)…

astro-ph.CO2023

A new step forward in realistic cluster lens mass modelling: Analysis of Hubble Frontier Field Cluster Abell S1063 from joint lensing, X-ray and galaxy kinematics data

Benjamin Beauchesne, Benjamin Clément, Pascale Hibon +14

We present a new method to simultaneously/self-consistently model the mass distribution of galaxy clusters that combines constraints from strong lensing features, X-ray emission an…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

Pilot-WINGS: An extended MUSE view of the structure of Abell 370

David J. Lagattuta, Johan Richard, Franz Erik Bauer +18

We investigate the strong-lensing cluster Abell 370 (A370) using a wide Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopic mosaic from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). IFU spectr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

The Lensed Lyman-Alpha MUSE Arcs Sample (LLAMAS) : I. Characterisation of extended Lyman-alpha haloes and spatial offsets

A. Claeyssens, J. Richard, J. Blaizot +17

We present the Lensed Lyman-Alpha MUSE Arcs Sample (LLAMAS) selected from MUSE and HST observations of 17 lensing clusters. The sample consists of 603 continuum-faint (-23<M_UV<-14…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 57 cited

The SuperCam Infrared Spectrometer for the Perseverance Rover of the Mars2020 mission

Thierry Fouchet, Jean-Michel Reess, Franck Montmessin +38

We present the Infrared spectrometer of SuperCam Instrument Suite that enables the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover to study remotely the Martian mineralogy within the Jezero crater. T…

astro-ph.IM2021

Curved detector-based optical design for the VLT/BlueMUSE instrument

Alexandre Jeanneau, Johan Kosmalski, Eduard Muslimov +3

BlueMUSE (Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph proposed for the Very Large Telescope (VLT)…